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Pluricomplex geometry and hyperbolic monopoles

Differential Geometry 2011-04-15 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Motivated by strong desire to understand the natural geometry of moduli spaces of hyperbolic monopoles, we introduce and study a new type of geometry: pluricomplex geometry. It is a generalisation of hypercomplex geometry: we still have a 2-sphere of complex structures, but they no longer behave like unit imaginary quaternions. We still require, however, that the 2-sphere of complex structures determines a decomposition of the complexified tangent space as tensor product of C^{2n} and C^2. Among interesting properties of pluricomplex manifold is the existence of a canonical torsion free connection. Pluricomplex manifolds have also remarkable twistor theory: they parameterise algebraic curves of higher genera.

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@article{arxiv.1104.2270,
  title  = {Pluricomplex geometry and hyperbolic monopoles},
  author = {Roger Bielawski and Lorenz Schwachhöfer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.2270},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

33 pages; a superfluous assumption about purity of sheaves removed in section 2

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