Monopoles and the Gibbons-Manton metric

Abstract

We show that, in the region where monopoles are well separated, the L^2-metric on the moduli space of n-monopoles is exponentially close to the T^n-invariant hyperkähler metric proposed by Gibbons and Manton. The proof is based on a description of the Gibbons-Manton metric as a metric on a certain moduli space of solutions to Nahm's equations, and on twistor methods. In particular, we show how the twistor description of monopole metrics determines the asymptotic metric.

24 pages, AMS-Latex, to appear in Commun. Math. Phys

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