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Monopoles and spectral curves for arbitrary Lie groups

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The definition of the spectral curve of a monopole is extended to any connected, compact, simple Lie groupK. It is found there are rankK curves whose degrees are related to the topological weights of the monopole.

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    M. K. Murray

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Murray, M.K. Monopoles and spectral curves for arbitrary Lie groups. Commun.Math. Phys. 90, 263–271 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01205507

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