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Projective Modules of Finite Type and Monopoles over $S^2$

Mathematical Physics 2015-06-26 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology math.MP

Abstract

We give a unifying description of all inequivalent vector bundles over the 2-dimensional sphere S2S^2 by constructing suitable global projectors pp via equivariant maps. Each projector determines the projective module of finite type of sections of the corresponding complex rank 1 vector bundle over S2S^2. The canonical connection =pd\nabla = p \circ d is used to compute the topological charges. Transposed projectors gives opposite values for the charges, thus showing that transposition of projectors, although an isomorphism in K-theory, is not the identity map. Also, we construct the partial isometry yielding the equivalence between the tangent projector (which is trivial in K-theory) and the real form of the charge 2 projector.

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@article{arxiv.math-ph/9905014,
  title  = {Projective Modules of Finite Type and Monopoles over $S^2$},
  author = {Giovanni Landi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/9905014},
  year   = {2015}
}

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