Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1996-01-26
Nucl.Phys. B464 (1996) 59-84
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
uuencoded latex, 32 pages, 4 figures To appear in Nuclear Physics B
Scientific paper
10.1016/0550-3213(96)00037-5
By imposing certain combined inversion and rotation symmetries on the rational maps for SU(2) BPS monopoles we construct geodesics in the monopole moduli space. In the moduli space approximation these geodesics describe a novel kind of monopole scattering. During these scattering processes axial symmetry is instantaneously attained and, in some, monopoles with the symmetries of the regular solids are formed. The simplest example corresponds to a charge three monopole invariant under a combined inversion and 90 degree rotation symmetry. In this example three well-separated collinear unit charge monopoles coalesce to form first a tetrahedron, then a torus, then the dual tetrahedron and finally separate again along the same axis of motion. We explicitly construct the spectral curves in this case and use a numerical ADHMN construction to compute the energy density at various times during the motion. We find that the dynamics of the zeros of the Higgs field is extremely rich and we discover a new phenomenon; there exist charge k SU(2) BPS monopoles with more than k zeros of the Higgs field.
Houghton Conor
Sutcliffe Paul
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