Monopoles and the Gibbons-Manton Metric

Abstract

We show that, in the region where monopoles are well separated, the L^2-metric on the moduli space of n-monopoles is exponentially close to the T^n-invariant hyperk\"ahler metric proposed by Gibbons and Manton. The proof is based on a description of the Gibbons-Manton metric as a metric on a certain moduli space of solutions to Nahm's equations, and on twistor methods. In particular, we show how the twistor description of monopole metrics determines the asymptotic metric.