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The Geometry of Electric Charge: The Charge Characteristic Class

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

It is well known that magnetic monopoles are related to the first Chern class. In this note electric charge is used to construct an analogous characteristic class: the charge class.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9405063,
  title  = {The Geometry of Electric Charge: The Charge Characteristic Class},
  author = {G. H. Gadiyar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9405063},
  year   = {2007}
}

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