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A scheme is proposed and justified for examining the motion of the five dimensional Kaluza-Klein monopoles at low energy. The classical and quantum scattering is discussed and it is shown that for all separations and at small velocities the monopoles do not interact with one another.
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Ruback, P.J. The motion of Kaluza-Klein monopoles. Commun.Math. Phys. 107, 93–102 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01206954
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