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ZERO AND INFINITE CURVATURE LIMITS OF HYPERBOLIC MONOPOLES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 1997

STUART JARVIS
Affiliation:
Merton College, Oxford OX1 4JD
PAUL NORBURY
Affiliation:
Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL
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Abstract

We show that the zero curvature limit of the space of hyperbolic monopoles gives the Euclidean monopoles, settling a conjecture of Atiyah. We also study the infinite curvature limit of the space of hyperbolic monopoles, and show that the associated rational maps appear explicitly here.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© The London Mathematical Society 1997

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