CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. PREFACE vii
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. CHAPTER 1. The Monopole Equations 9
6. CHAPTER 2. Geometry of the Monopole Spaces 14
7. CHAPTER 3. Metric of Monopole Spaces 21
8. CHAPTER 4. Hyperkahler Property of the Metric 28
9. CHAPTER 5. The Twistor Description 38
10. CHAPTER 6. Particles and Symmetric Products 51
11. CHAPTER 7. The 2-monopole Space 58
12. CHAPTER 8. Spectral Radii and the Conformal Structure 64
13. CHAPTER 9. The Anti-self-dual Einstein Equations 70
14. CHAPTER 10. Some Inequalities 79
15. CHAPTER 11. The Metric on M⁰₂ 90
16. CHAPTER 12. Detailed Properties of the Metric 96
17. CHAPTER 13. Geodesics on M⁰₂ 102
18. CHAPTER 14. Particle Scattering 109
19. CHAPTER 15. Comparisons with KdV Solitons 116
20. CHAPTER 16. Background Material 119
21. BIBLIOGRAPHY 129
22. INDEX 132
23. Backmatter 134