Magnetic monopoles as gauge particles?

doi:10.1016/0370-2693(77)90076-4

Physics Letters B

Volume 72, Issue 1, 5 December 1977, Pages 117-120

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Abstract

We present evidence for the following conjecture: when quantized, the magnetic monopole soliton solutions constructed by 't Hooft and Polyakov, as modified by Prasad, Sommerfield and Bogomolny, form a gauge triplet with the photon, corresponding to a Lagrangian similar to the original Georgi-Glashow one, but with magnetic replacing electric charge.

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¹: Address after 1 October 1977: Department of Physics, Imperial College, London SW7, UK.

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Magnetic monopoles as gauge particles?

Abstract

Nucl. Phys.

Nucl. Phys.

Phys. Rev.

Phys. Rev.

Nucl. Phys.

JETP Lett.

JETP

Phys. Rev. Lett.