Magnetic monopoles without strings by Kaehler-Clifford algebra
- 1. State Univ. at Campinas, Campinas, Sao Paulo (Brazil)
Description
In place of Dirac monopoles with string, this paper presents monopoles without string on the basis of a generalized potential, the sum of a vector A and a pseudovector γB potential. By having recourse to the (graded) Clifford algebra which allows adding together tensors of different ranks (e.g., scalars + pseudoscalars + vectors + pseudovectors + . . .), in a previous paper we succeeded in constructing a Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalism for interacting monopoles that can be regarded as satisfactory from various points of view. In the present note, after having completed that formalism, the authors put forth a purely geometrical interpretation of it within the Kahler algebra on differential forms, essential ingredients being the natural introduction of a generalized curvature and the Hodge decomposition. The authors thus pave the way for the extension of monopoles without string to non-abelian gauge groups. The analogies of this approach with supersymmetric theories are apparent
Additional details
Additional titles
- Subtitle (English)
- Geometrical interpretation of a satisfactory formalism
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Modern Physics Letters A
- Journal Volume
- 5
- Journal Issue
- 8
- Series
- Mod. Phys. Lett. A.
- Journal Page Range
- 543-550
- ISSN
- 0217-7323
- CODEN
- MPLAE
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 23005920
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CLIFFORD ALGEBRA; DIRAC EQUATION; GAUGE INVARIANCE; INTERACTIONS; MONOPOLES; POTENTIALS; SUPERSYMMETRY; SYMMETRY GROUPS
- Descriptors DEC
- DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; FIELD EQUATIONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SYMMETRY; WAVE EQUATIONS