SU(N) monopoles and Platonic symmetry

DOI10.1063/1.532152MaRDI QIDQ4378304zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Conor Houghton, Paul Sutcliffe

Publication date 4 March 1998

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9708006

zbMATH Keywords

\(\text{SU} (N)\) monopolesADHMN constructionAtiyah-Drinfeld-Hitchin-Manin-Nahm constructioncharge \(N-1\) monopolesgeodesicstetrahedral symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

Abstract: We discuss the ADHMN construction for SU(N) monopoles and show that a particular simplification arises in studying charge N-1 monopoles with minimal symmetry breaking. Using this we construct families of tetrahedrally symmetric SU(4) and SU(5) monopoles. In the moduli space approximation, the SU(4) one-parameter family describes a novel dynamics where the monopoles never separate, but rather, a tetrahedron deforms to its dual. We find a two-parameter family of SU(5) tetrahedral monopoles and compute some geodesics in this submanifold numerically. The dynamics is rich, with the monopoles scattering either once or twice through octahedrally symmetric configurations.

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