Published February 1989
| Version v1
Journal article
The classification of monopoles for the classical groups
Creators
- 1. McGill Univ., Montreal, Quebec (Canada). Dept. of Mathematics
- 2. Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (USA)
Description
By studying a construction of Nahm, we compute the moduli spaces of monopoles with maximal symmetry breaking at infinity for SU(N), SO(N) and Sp(N); these are found to be equivalent to spaces of holomorphic maps from P1 into flag manifolds. (orig.)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Communications in Mathematical Physics
- Journal Volume
- 120
- Journal Issue
- 4
- Series
- Commun. Math. Phys.
- Journal Page Range
- 613-642
- ISSN
- 0010-3616
- CODEN
- CMPHA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Germany
- Country of Input or Organization
- Germany
- INIS RN
- 20019919
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; GAUGE INVARIANCE; IRREDUCIBLE REPRESENTATIONS; MONOPOLES; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; RIEMANN SPACE; SINGULARITY; SMOOTH MANIFOLDS; SO GROUPS; SP GROUPS; SU GROUPS; SYMMETRY BREAKING; TOPOLOGICAL MAPPING; TWISTOR THEORY; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS
- Descriptors DEC
- DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; FIELD THEORIES; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; LIE GROUPS; MATHEMATICAL MANIFOLDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; PARTICLE MODELS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SPACE; SYMMETRY GROUPS; TRANSFORMATIONS
Optional Information
- Contract/Grant/Project number
- Grant NSERC A8361; FCAR EQ3518