Honoring Anne Manton

To Anne

Anne O’Tate

Anne Magurran

The overwhelming appeal of the concept of evolution through natural selection has focused the minds of generations of biologists on trends, and the similarities and differences between organisms that is grist to the mill of taxonomists. “To paraphrase T.S. Eliot, ‘Where is the imagination that has been lost in knowledge and where is the knowledge that has been lost in information?’ This book is...

Monopoles and the Gibbons-manton Metric

We show that, in the region where monopoles are well separated, the L-metric on the moduli space of n-monopoles is exponentially close to the Tn-invariant hyperkähler 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...

Atiyah-Manton Approach to Skyrmion Matter

We propose how to approach, and report on the first results in our effort for, describing nuclear matter starting from the solitonic picture of baryons which is supposed to represent QCD for large number of colors. For this purpose, the instanton-skyrmion connection of Atiyah and Manton is exploited to describe skyrmion matter. We first modify ’t Hooft’s multi-instanton solution so as to suitab...