Monopoles and geodesics
Abstract
Using the holomorphic geometry of the space of straight lines in Euclidean 3-space, it is shown that every static monopole of charge k may be constructed canonically from an algebraic curve by means of the Atiyah-Ward AnsatzA_k.
- Publication:
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Communications in Mathematical Physics
- Pub Date:
- December 1982
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF01208717
- Bibcode:
- 1982CMaPh..83..579H