The Hidden Symmetries of Taub - Nut and Monopole Scattering

Dec, 1986
13 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 188 (1987) 226
Report number:
  • LPTENS-86-40

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
The recently discovered hidden symmetries in the large-distance interactions of BPS monopoles with each other and with fluctuations around them are traced to the existence on the self-dual Taub-NUT metric of a Killing-Yano tensor. The global action on classical phase space of these symmetries is discussed. The quantum picture involving the “dynamical groups” SO(4), SO(4, 1) and SO(4, 2) is also given.
  • field equations: monopole
  • kinematics: phase space
  • model: oscillator
  • group theory: SU(2,2)
  • group theory: representation
  • invariance: conformal
  • field theory: space-time