Differential characters: The Dirac monopole as an example

DOI10.1063/1.526645zbMath0586.57014OpenAlexW2072190467MaRDI QIDQ3711379

Robert Coquereaux

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.526645

zbMATH Keywords

magnetic monopolesecondary characteristic classesquantization conditionDirac monopoledifferential charactersChern-Simons characterdifferential forms with singularitiesmap from loops on the two- sphere to U(1)U(1) phase factor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Differential forms in global analysis (58A10) Geometric quantization (53D50)

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