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Solutions of Nahm's system of ordinary differential equations are produced by variational methods. This leads to an explicit parametrisation of the solutions to the Bogomolny equation over ℝ3.
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Donaldson, S.K. Nahm's equations and the classification of monopoles. Commun.Math. Phys. 96, 387–407 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01214583
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