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Massive Electrodynamics and Magnetic Monopoles

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Including torsion in the geometric framework of the Weyl-Dirac theory we build up an action integral, and obtain from it a gauge covariant (in the Weyl sense) general relativistic massive electrodynamics. Photons having an arbitrary mass, electric, and magnetic currents (Dirac's monopole) coexist within this theory. Assuming that the space-time is torsionless, taking the photon mass zero, and turning to the Einstein gauge we obtain Maxwell's electrodynamics.

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Israelit, M. Massive Electrodynamics and Magnetic Monopoles. General Relativity and Gravitation 29, 1411–1424 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018886130087

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