%0 Journal Article
%T Vortices as degenerate metrics
%A J. M. Baptista
%J Mathematics
%D 2012
%I arXiv
%X We note that the Bogomolny equation for abelian vortices is precisely the condition for invariance of the Hermitian-Einstein equation under a degenerate conformal transformation. This leads to a natural interpretation of vortices as degenerate hermitian metrics that satisfy a certain curvature equation. Using this viewpoint, we rephrase standard results about vortices and make new observations. We note the existence of a conceptually simple, non-linear rule for superposing vortex solutions, and we describe the natural behaviour of the L^2-metric on the moduli space upon restriction to a class of submanifolds.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.3561v2