Published March 1982 | Version v1
Journal article

Monopoles and geodesics

Creators

  • 1. Saint Catherine's Coll., Oxford (UK)

Description

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 Ansatz Asub(k). (orig.)

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Commun. Math. Phys.
Journal Volume
83
Journal Issue
4
Series
Commun. Math. Phys.
Journal Page Range
579-602
ISSN
0010-3616

INIS

Country of Publication
Germany
Country of Input or Organization
Germany
INIS RN
13692993
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; EUCLIDEAN SPACE; FIELD THEORIES; GEODESICS; MONOPOLES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS
Descriptors DEC
MATHEMATICAL SPACE; RIEMANN SPACE; SPACE