© 2001 by London Mathematical Society
Spherical Monopoles and Holomorphic Functions
Département de mathématiques Bâtiment 425, Université Paris 11, F-91405 Orsay, France; e-mail: pauly{at}topo.math.u-psud.fr
Received 15 September 1999. Revision received 14 February 2000.
We show that any gauge-equivalence class of solutions (
,
) of the monopole equation F
= *d
, defined on an open set
of S3 (equipped with its standard metric), induces canonically a holomorphic function on the complex 2-dimensional space of all geodesics on S3 entirely contained in
.