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Monopoles, instantons and the Helmholtz equation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-09-23 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

In this work we study the dimensional reduction of smooth circle invariant Yang-Mills instantons defined on 4-manifolds which are non-trivial circle fibrations over hyperbolic 3-space. A suitable choice of the 4-manifold metric within a specific conformal class gives rise to singular and smooth hyperbolic monopoles. A large class of monopoles is obtained if the conformal factor satisfies the Helmholtz equation on hyperbolic 3-space. We describe simple configurations and relate our results to the JNR construction, for which we provide a geometric interpretation.

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@article{arxiv.1603.09575,
  title  = {Monopoles, instantons and the Helmholtz equation},
  author = {Guido Franchetti and Rafael Maldonado},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.09575},
  year   = {2016}
}

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18 pages, 3 figures

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