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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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@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

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