Interactions between 't Hooft-Polyakov monopoles

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Abstract
We use the stress-energy tensor and the associated energy-momentum conservation to study the interactions between two widely separated monopoles (or monopole and antimonopole). By defining a set of minimal conditions to represent the above systems, we show how the problem reduced mathematically to a known electrostatic problem. The force between the monopoles (or monopole and antimonopole) is then, to the leading order, the expected repulsive (attractive) Coulomb force. We also discuss how the Prasad-Sommerfield limit alters the problem, leading to twice the Coulomb force between a monopole and antimonopole and zero force between two monopoles.

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