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Singularities of Magnetic Monopoles for Dirac and 't Hooft-Polyakov Theories by Pre-potential Method

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-05-22 v1

Abstract

The magnetic monopole is one of the important problems in the early stage of universe as well as observations and experiments on Earth. We study the existence or non-existence of the Dirac and the 't Hooft-Polyakov magnetic monopole theories using the pre-potential C\boldsymbol{C}, which is defined to derive the vector potential by the curl operation as A=×C\boldsymbol{A}=\nabla \times \boldsymbol{C} . We assert that the magnetic singularity exists for the 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole in SO(3) gauge theory, as well as for the Dirac monopole in U(1) gauge theory. The regularization method confirms our assertion.

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@article{arxiv.2505.15301,
  title  = {Singularities of Magnetic Monopoles for Dirac and 't Hooft-Polyakov Theories by Pre-potential Method},
  author = {Masakatsu Kenmoku},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.15301},
  year   = {2025}
}

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8 pages