Monopoles of Twelve Types in 3-Body Problems

Abstract

We consider twelve different ways of modelling the 3-body problem in dimension $\ge 2$. These can be viewed as models of classical and quantum background independence. We show that a different type of monopole is realized in each's relational space: a type of reduced configuration space. 8 cases occur in 2-$d$, and 4 distinct ones in 3-$d$; these reflect counts of non-equivalent subgroup actions of $S_3\times C_2$ and $S_3$ respectively. The $S_3$ acts on particle labels; the extra $C_2$ corresponds to the purely 2-$d$ option of whether or not to identify mirror images. The non-equivalent realization is due to a suite of subgroup, orbit space and stratification features. Our 2-$d$ monopoles include 4 known ones: a realization of Dirac's monopole in relational space rather than its more habitual setting of space, the 2-$d$ version of Iwai's monopole, and indistinguishable particle monopoles with and without mirror image identification. The 4 new ones are indistinguishable under a 2-particle label switch or under even permutations, in each case with optional mirror image identification. Our 4 3-$d$ monopoles are 2 known ones: the actual Iwai monopole and its already-announced indistinguishable-particles counterpart, and 2 new ones: the two-particle label switch and even permutation cases. All 4 3-$d$ cases are stratified. The three even-permutation cases are orbifolds, two with boundary, the 3-$d$ case's boundary constituting a separate stratum, giving a stratified orbifold. We document each of the 12 cases' underlying shape space and relational space, and each monopole's Hopf mathematics, global-section versus topological quantization dichotomy, Dirac string positioning, and Chern integral concordance with topological contributions form of Gauss--Bonnet Theorem.

39 pages including 23 figures

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