Electromagnetism with Magnetic Charge and Two Photons
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-05-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
The Dirac approach to include magnetic charge in Maxwell's equations places the magnetic charge at the end of a string on which the the fields of the theory develop a singularity. In this paper an alternative formulation of classical electromagnetism with magnetic and electric charge is given by introducing a second pseudo four-vector potential, C_mu, in addition to the usual four- vector potential, A_mu. This avoids the use of singular, non-local variables (i.e. Dirac strings) in electrodynamics with magnetic charge, and it makes the treatment of electric and magentic charge more symmetric, since both charges are now gauge charges.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1106.1505,
title = {Electromagnetism with Magnetic Charge and Two Photons},
author = {Douglas Singleton},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.1505},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
20 page, 0 figures. Published in AJP. Proposes the possiblity of an additional U(1) magnetic, gauge boson