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Pluricomplex Geometry and Hyperbolic Monopoles

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Motivated by strong desire to understand the natural geometry of moduli spaces of hyperbolic monopoles, we introduce and study a new type of geometry: pluricomplex geometry.

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  1. Roger Bielawski

    Present address: Institut für Differentialgeometrie, Universität Hannover, Welfengarten 1, 30167, Hannover, Germany

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  1. School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK

    Roger Bielawski

  2. Fakultät für Mathematik, TU Dortmund, 44221, Dortmund, Germany

    Lorenz Schwachhöfer

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Bielawski, R., Schwachhöfer, L. Pluricomplex Geometry and Hyperbolic Monopoles. Commun. Math. Phys. 323, 1–34 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-013-1761-7

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