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It is shown that instantons are hyperbolic monopoles for the loop group with non-maximal symmetry breaking at infinity.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Yale University, Yale Station, Box 2155, 06520, New Haven, C.T., USA

    H. Garland

  2. Department of Mathematics, R.S. Phys. S., The Australian National University, GPO Box 4, 2601, Canberra, ACT, Australia

    M. K. Murray

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Communicated by A. Jaffe

Research supported in part by NSF grant DMS-8506130

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Garland, H., Murray, M.K. Why instantons are monopoles. Commun.Math. Phys. 121, 85–90 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01218625

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