nLab Nigel Hitchin

Nigel Hitchin is professor of pure mathematics at Oxford.

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Selected writings

Introducing the ADHM construction for Yang-Mills instantons:

• Michael Atiyah, Nigel Hitchin, Vladimir Drinfeld, Yuri Manin, Construction of instantons, Physics Letters A 65 3 (1978) 185-187 [doi:10.1016/0375-9601(78)90141-X]

On the moduli spaces of monopoles:

• Michael Atiyah, Nigel Hitchin, The geometry and dynamics of magnetic monopoles M. B. Porter Lectures. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1988 (jstor:j.ctt7zv206)

• Michael Atiyah, Nigel Hitchin, J. T. Stuart and M. Tabor, Low-Energy Scattering of Non-Abelian Magnetic Monopoles, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences Vol. 315, No. 1533, New Developments in the Theory and Application of Solitons (Aug. 13, 1985), pp. 459-469 (jstor:37546)

On The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Physics in the Mathematical Sciences:

• Michael Atiyah, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Nigel Hitchin, Geometry and physics, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 368 1914 (2010) 913-926 [doi:10.1098/rsta.2009.0227, pdf]

On SL(2,O):

• Nigel Hitchin, $SL(2)$ over the octonions, Mathematical Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. Vol. 118. No. 1. Royal Irish Academy, 2018 (arXiv:1805.02224)

Related entries

• moduli space of monopoles

• Hitchin connection

• Hitchin fibration

• Hitchin functional

• generalized complex geometry

• Kobayashi-Hitchin correspondence

• SL(2,O)

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