Avoiding Dirac's Veto in Monopole Theory

Brandt, Richard A.; Primack, Joel R.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.15.1798

Avoiding Dirac's Veto in Monopole Theory

Richard A. Brandt
(
- New York U.
)
,
Joel R. Primack
(
- UC, Santa Cruz
)

Nov, 1976

12 pages

Published in:

Phys.Rev.D 15 (1977) 1798-1802

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevD.15.1798

Report number:

NYU-TR5-76

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Using ideas introduced by Wu and Yang in their recent nonsingular formulation of an action principle for classical Dirac magnetic monopoles, we modify Dirac's original formulation of the problem so as to avoid the difficulties encountered when charged-particle trajectories intersect singular strings.

Dirac equation
CHARGE: QUANTIZATION
POSTULATED PARTICLE: MAGNETIC MONOPOLE
ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD: FIELD EQUATIONS
MODEL: STRING
DIRAC: STRING
MODEL: WU-YANG
FIELD THEORY: CLASSICAL

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