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Surface integrals and monopole charges in non-abelian gauge theories

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We derive a formula which gives all the magnetic charges (topological invariants) of a monopole in the adjoint representation of a non-abelian gauge theory in terms of surface integrals at infinity.

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  1. Lyman Laboratory, Harvard University, 02138, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Clifford Henry Taubes

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Communicated by A. Jaffe

Supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY 79-16812

Junior Fellow, Harvard University Society of Fellows

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Taubes, C.H. Surface integrals and monopole charges in non-abelian gauge theories. Commun.Math. Phys. 81, 299–311 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01209069

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