Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (SIGMA)

SIGMA 19 (2023), 043, 15 pages      arXiv:2302.13792      https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2023.043
Contribution to the Special Issue on Topological Solitons as Particles

The Asymptotic Structure of the Centred Hyperbolic 2-Monopole Moduli Space

Guido Franchetti a and Calum Ross b
a) Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, England, UK
b) Department of Mathematics, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, England, UK

Received February 28, 2023, in final form June 21, 2023; Published online July 04, 2023

Abstract
We construct an asymptotic metric on the moduli space of two centred hyperbolic monopoles by working in the point particle approximation, that is treating well-separated monopoles as point particles with an electric, magnetic and scalar charge and re-interpreting the dynamics of the 2-particle system as geodesic motion with respect to some metric. The corresponding analysis in the Euclidean case famously yields the negative mass Taub-NUT metric, which asymptotically approximates the $L^2$ metric on the moduli space of two Euclidean monopoles, the Atiyah-Hitchin metric. An important difference with the Euclidean case is that, due to the absence of Galilean symmetry, in the hyperbolic case it is not possible to factor out the centre of mass motion. Nevertheless we show that we can consistently restrict to a 3-dimensional configuration space by considering antipodal configurations. In complete parallel with the Euclidean case, the metric that we obtain is then the hyperbolic analogue of negative mass Taub-NUT. We also show how the metric obtained is related to the asymptotic form of a hyperbolic analogue of the Atiyah-Hitchin metric constructed by Hitchin.

Key words: hyperbolic monopoles; moduli space metrics.

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