SU(N) monopoles and Platonic symmetry
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Houghton, Conor J. and Sutcliffe, Paul M. 'SU(N) monopoles and Platonic symmetry' in the Journal of Mathematical Physics, 38, 1997, pp 5576 - 5589.Download Item:
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We discuss the ADHMN construction for SU(N) monopoles and show that a particular simplification arises in studying charge N?1 monopoles with minimal symmetry breaking. Using this we construct families of tetrahedrally symmetric SU(4) and SU(5) monopoles. In the moduli space approximation, the SU(4) one-parameter family describes a novel dynamics where the monopoles never separate, but rather, a tetrahedron deforms to its dual. We find a two-parameter family of SU(5) tetrahedral monopoles and compute some geodesics in this submanifold numerically. The dynamics is rich, with the monopoles scattering either once or twice through octahedrally symmetric configurations
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