The Geometry and Dynamics of Magnetic Monopoles / / Nigel Hitchin, Michael Francis Atiyah.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Atiyah, Michael Francis,; Hitchin, Nigel,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Porter Lectures ; 11
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (144 p.)

Systems governed by non-linear differential equations are of fundamental importance in all branches of science, but our understanding of them is still extremely limited. In this book a particular system, describing the interaction of magnetic monopoles, is investigated in detail. The use of new geometrical methods produces a reasonably clear picture of the dynamics for slowly moving monopoles. This picture clarifies the important notion of solitons, which has attracted much attention in recent years. The soliton idea bridges the gap between the concepts of "fields" and "particles," and is here explored in a fully three-dimensional context. While the background and motivation for the work comes from physics, the presentation is mathematical.This book is interdisciplinary and addresses concerns of theoretical physicists interested in elementary particles or general relativity and mathematicians working in analysis or geometry. The interaction between geometry and physics through non-linear partial differential equations is now at a very exciting stage, and the book is a contribution to this activity.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. The Monopole Equations -- CHAPTER 2. Geometry of the Monopole Spaces -- CHAPTER 3. Metric of Monopole Spaces -- CHAPTER 4. Hyperkahler Property of the Metric -- CHAPTER 5. The Twistor Description -- CHAPTER 6. Particles and Symmetric Products -- CHAPTER 7. The 2-monopole Space -- CHAPTER 8. Spectral Radii and the Conformal Structure -- CHAPTER 9. The Anti-self-dual Einstein Equations -- CHAPTER 10. Some Inequalities -- CHAPTER 11. The Metric on M02 -- CHAPTER 12. Detailed Properties of the Metric -- CHAPTER 13. Geodesics on M02 -- CHAPTER 14. Particle Scattering -- CHAPTER 15. Comparisons with KdV Solitons -- CHAPTER 16. Background Material -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Backmatter