The Asymptotic Structure of the Centred Hyperbolic 2-Monopole Moduli Space

We construct an asymptotic metric on the moduli space of two-centred hyperbolic monopoles by working in the point particle approximation, that is, treating well-separated monopoles as point particles with an electric, magnetic, and scalar charge and re-interpreting the dynamics of the 2-particle sys...

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Published in:Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
Date:2023
Main Authors: Franchetti, Guido, Ross, Calum
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Language:English
Published: Інститут математики НАН України 2023
Online Access:https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/211988
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description We construct an asymptotic metric on the moduli space of two-centred hyperbolic monopoles by working in the point particle approximation, that is, treating well-separated monopoles as point particles with an electric, magnetic, and scalar charge and re-interpreting the dynamics of the 2-particle system as geodesic motion with respect to some metric. The corresponding analysis in the Euclidean case famously yields the negative mass Taub-NUT metric, which asymptotically approximates the ² metric on the moduli space of two Euclidean monopoles, the Atiyah-Hitchin metric. An important difference with the Euclidean case is that, due to the absence of Galilean symmetry, in the hyperbolic case, it is not possible to factor out the centre of mass motion. Nevertheless, we show that we can consistently restrict to a 3-dimensional configuration space by considering antipodal configurations. In complete parallel with the Euclidean case, the metric that we obtain is then the hyperbolic analogue of negative mass Taub-NUT. We also show how the metric obtained is related to the asymptotic form of a hyperbolic analogue of the Atiyah-Hitchin metric constructed by Hitchin.
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The Asymptotic Structure of the Centred Hyperbolic 2-Monopole Moduli Space. Guido Franchetti and Calum Ross. SIGMA 19 (2023), 043, 15 pages
1815-0659
2020 Mathematics Subject Classification: 70S15; 14D21
arXiv:2302.13792
https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/211988
https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2023.043
We construct an asymptotic metric on the moduli space of two-centred hyperbolic monopoles by working in the point particle approximation, that is, treating well-separated monopoles as point particles with an electric, magnetic, and scalar charge and re-interpreting the dynamics of the 2-particle system as geodesic motion with respect to some metric. The corresponding analysis in the Euclidean case famously yields the negative mass Taub-NUT metric, which asymptotically approximates the ² metric on the moduli space of two Euclidean monopoles, the Atiyah-Hitchin metric. An important difference with the Euclidean case is that, due to the absence of Galilean symmetry, in the hyperbolic case, it is not possible to factor out the centre of mass motion. Nevertheless, we show that we can consistently restrict to a 3-dimensional configuration space by considering antipodal configurations. In complete parallel with the Euclidean case, the metric that we obtain is then the hyperbolic analogue of negative mass Taub-NUT. We also show how the metric obtained is related to the asymptotic form of a hyperbolic analogue of the Atiyah-Hitchin metric constructed by Hitchin.
GF thanks the Simons Foundation for its support under the Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis and Physics [grant number 488631]. CR thanks Michael Singer for useful discussions about the notion of centring for hyperbolic monopoles. The work of CR was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [grant number EP/V047698/1].
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Інститут математики НАН України
Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
The Asymptotic Structure of the Centred Hyperbolic 2-Monopole Moduli Space
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