# The Asymptotic Structure of the Centred Hyperbolic 2-Monopole Moduli Space

## TL;DR

This paper constructs an asymptotic metric for the moduli space of two hyperbolic monopoles, revealing a hyperbolic analogue of the negative mass Taub-NUT metric and relating it to Hitchin's hyperbolic Atiyah-Hitchin metric.

## Contribution

It introduces a new asymptotic metric for hyperbolic monopoles, extending the Euclidean monopole analysis to hyperbolic space and addressing the lack of Galilean symmetry.

## Key findings

- Derived the hyperbolic negative mass Taub-NUT metric as an asymptotic approximation.
- Established a restriction to a 3D configuration space via antipodal configurations.
- Connected the constructed metric to Hitchin's hyperbolic Atiyah-Hitchin metric.

## Abstract

We construct an asymptotic metric on the moduli space of two centred hyperbolic monopoles by working in the point particle approximation, that is treating well-separated monopoles as point particles with an electric, magnetic and scalar charge and re-interpreting the dynamics of the 2-particle system as geodesic motion with respect to some metric. The corresponding analysis in the Euclidean case famously yields the negative mass Taub-NUT metric, which asymptotically approximates the $L^2$ metric on the moduli space of two Euclidean monopoles, the Atiyah-Hitchin metric. An important difference with the Euclidean case is that, due to the absence of Galilean symmetry, in the hyperbolic case it is not possible to factor out the centre of mass motion. Nevertheless we show that we can consistently restrict to a 3-dimensional configuration space by considering antipodal configurations. In complete parallel with the Euclidean case, the metric that we obtain is then the hyperbolic analogue of negative mass Taub-NUT. We also show how the metric obtained is related to the asymptotic form of a hyperbolic analogue of the Atiyah-Hitchin metric constructed by Hitchin.