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Dirac-Yang monopoles in all dimensions and their regular counterparts

  • Proceedings of the XII International Conference on Symmetry Methods in Physics July 3–8 (2006), Yerevan, Armenia
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The Dirac-Yang monopoles are singular Yang-Mills field configurations in all Euclidean dimensions. The regular counterpart of the Dirac monopole in D = 3 is the’ t Hooft-Polyakov monopole, the former being simply a gauge transform of the asymptotic fields of the latter. Here, regular counterparts of Dirac-Yang monopoles in all dimensions are described. In the first part of this work, the hierarchy of Dirac-Yang monopoles will be defined; in the second part, the motivation to study these in a topical context will be briefly presented; and in the last part, two classes of regular counterparts to the Dirac-Yang hierarchy will be presented.

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  1. Department of Mathematical Physics, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland Maynooth, Ireland

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  2. School of Theoretical Physics, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, Ireland

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  3. Theory Division, Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia

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Tchrakian, T. Dirac-Yang monopoles in all dimensions and their regular counterparts. Phys. Atom. Nuclei 71, 1116–1122 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S106377880806015X

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