On the constraints defining BPS monopoles

DOI10.1007/S002200000208zbMATH Open0983.53016arXivhep-th/9909168OpenAlexW3100059014MaRDI QIDQ1581649FDOQ1581649

Authors: Conor Houghton, N. S. Manton, Nuno M. Romão 

Publication date: 8 October 2000

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We discuss the explicit formulation of the transcendental constraints defining spectral curves of SU(2) BPS monopoles in the twistor approach of Hitchin, following Ercolani and Sinha. We obtain an improved version of the Ercolani-Sinha constraints, and show that the Corrigan-Goddard conditions for constructing monopoles of arbitrary charge can be regarded as a special case of these. As an application, we study the spectral curve of the tetrahedrally symmetric 3-monopole, an example where the Corrigan-Goddard conditions need to be modified. A particular 1-cycle on the spectral curve plays an important role in our analysis.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9909168

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zbMATH Keywords

constraintsspectral curvesBPS monopoles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Twistor methods in differential geometry (53C28)

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