On moduli spaces of periodic monopoles and gravitational instantons

The topic of this thesis is the study of moduli spaces of periodic monopoles (with singularities), i.e. (singular) solutions to the Bogomolny equation (the dimensional reduction of the anti-self-duality equation to 3 dimensions) on R2 x S1. Using arguments from physics, Cherkis and Kapustin gave str...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Foscolo, Lorenzo
Other Authors: Neves, Andre : Haskins, Mark
Published: Imperial College London 2013
Subjects:
510
Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.616737