Three-cocycles, Nonassociative Gauge Transformations and Dirac's Monopole
High Energy Physics - Theory
2013-01-15 v3 Mathematical Physics
Group Theory
math.MP
Quantum Physics
Abstract
The relation between 3-cocycles arising in the Dirac monopole problem and nonassociative gauge transformations is studied. It is shown that nonassociative extension of the group U(1) allows to obtain a consistent theory of pointlike magnetic monopole with an arbitrary magnetic charge.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0406073,
title = {Three-cocycles, Nonassociative Gauge Transformations and Dirac's Monopole},
author = {Alexander I Nesterov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0406073},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
Typos removed. To appear in Physics Letters A