Contact Monopoles in Dimension Five: Rigidity and Homogeneous Classification
Abstract
We introduce contact monopoles on contact metric $5$-manifolds and study their basic geometric properties. We construct natural examples from Boothby--Wang fibrations over Kähler surfaces and relate the equation to contact instantons on Sasakian $5$-manifolds. In particular, we show that anti-self-dual contact instantons with a parallel Higgs field provide contact monopoles. We also prove a compact rigidity result: on compact contact metric $5$-manifolds, every smooth contact monopole has parallel Higgs field and satisfies the reduced curvature equation FA∧ω=0. In the Sasakian case, this relates compact contact monopoles to anti-self-dual contact instantons under the usual transverse type condition. We also explain why the associated deformation complex is not elliptic in the usual sense. We then focus on unit tangent sphere bundles of oriented Riemannian $3$-manifolds, endowed with their canonical contact metric structures. In this setting, we derive a local form of the contact monopole equation with respect to the canonical adapted frame and prove that pure pullback configurations from the base are rigid. Finally, for the homogeneous Sasakian manifold T1S3≅ SO(4)/SO(2), we use Wang's theorem to reduce the invariant contact monopole equation to finite-dimensional algebraic systems and classify the invariant solutions for homogeneous U(1)- and SO(3)-bundles. In the abelian case, the classification yields non-flat homogeneous U(1) contact monopoles for nonzero topological charge. In the non-abelian case, all weights except m=1 reduce to the maximal torus, while the weight m=1 gives a genuinely non-abelian branch of homogeneous SO(3) contact monopoles.
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BibTeX
@misc{portilla2026contact,
title = {{Contact Monopoles in Dimension Five: Rigidity and Homogeneous Classification}},
author = {Luis Portilla},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.07246},
eprint = {2610.07246},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.07246},
note = {CC BY-NC-ND 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Contact Monopoles in Dimension Five: Rigidity and Homogeneous Classification
AU - Luis Portilla
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/05
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.07246
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.07246
AB - We introduce contact monopoles on contact metric $5$-manifolds and study their basic geometric properties. We construct natural examples from Boothby--Wang fibrations over Kähler surfaces and relate the equation to contact instantons on Sasakian $5$-manifolds. In particular, we show that anti-self-dual contact instantons with a parallel Higgs field provide contact monopoles. We also prove a compact rigidity result: on compact contact metric $5$-manifolds, every smooth contact monopole has parallel Higgs field and satisfies the reduced curvature equation F_A∧ω=0. In the Sasakian case, this relates compact contact monopoles to anti-self-dual contact instantons under the usual transverse type condition. We also explain why the associated deformation complex is not elliptic in the usual sense. We then focus on unit tangent sphere bundles of oriented Riemannian $3$-manifolds, endowed with their canonical contact metric structures. In this setting, we derive a local form of the contact monopole equation with respect to the canonical adapted frame and prove that pure pullback configurations from the base are rigid. Finally, for the homogeneous Sasakian manifold T_1S^3≅ SO(4)/SO(2), we use Wang's theorem to reduce the invariant contact monopole equation to finite-dimensional algebraic systems and classify the invariant solutions for homogeneous U(1)- and SO(3)-bundles. In the abelian case, the classification yields non-flat homogeneous U(1) contact monopoles for nonzero topological charge. In the non-abelian case, all weights except m=1 reduce to the maximal torus, while the weight m=1 gives a genuinely non-abelian branch of homogeneous SO(3) contact monopoles.
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