Octahedral and dodecahedral monopoles

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/9/2/005zbMATH Open0886.58115arXivhep-th/9601147OpenAlexW2004665762MaRDI QIDQ4378983FDOQ4378983

Authors: Conor Houghton, Paul Sutcliffe 

Publication date: 10 May 1998

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is shown that there exists a charge five monopole with octahedral symmetry and a charge seven monopole with icosahedral symmetry. A numerical implementation of the ADHMN construction is used to calculate the energy density of these monopoles and surfaces of constant energy density are displayed. The charge five and charge seven monopoles look like an octahedron and a dodecahedron respectively. A scattering geodesic for each of these monopoles is presented and discussed using rational maps. This is done with the aid of a new formula for the cluster decomposition of monopoles when the poles of the rational map are close together.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9601147

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zbMATH Keywords

octahedral symmetryicosahedral symmetrycharge five monopolecharge seven monopole

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05)

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