Dirac monopoles and the Hopf map S3to S2

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/13/2/012zbMath0436.54031OpenAlexW1965798740MaRDI QIDQ3876683

Lewis H. Ryder

Publication date: 1980

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/13/2/012

zbMATH Keywords

Hopf mapDirac monopolesHooft-Polyakov monopolestopological origin

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special maps on topological spaces (open, closed, perfect, etc.) (54C10) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Fiber bundles in algebraic topology (55R10)

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