Dirac's Magnetic Monopoles (Again)
High Energy Physics - Theory
2017-08-23 v1 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
History and Philosophy of Physics
Quantum Physics
Abstract
Dirac's quantization of magnetic monopole strength is derived without reference to a (singular, patched) vector potential.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0212058,
title = {Dirac's Magnetic Monopoles (Again)},
author = {R. Jackiw},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0212058},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
7 pages; 2 figures; talk prepared for Dirac Memorial, Tallahassee, Florida, December 2002; email correspondence to jackiw@lns.mit.edu