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Dual electromagnetism (proposed some time ago) allows the fractional electric charges and the magnetic monopoles to exist simultaneously. In fact, the Dirac quantization condition can be numerically reduced (with some plausible assumptions) to the third component of the particle total weak isospin, which by definition is always quantized. The field angular momentum,L, of a static particle-magnetic monopole configuration is evaluated exactly; it is found that because the dual photon has a mass,M c ,L generally depends onr, the separation between a particle and a monopole. However, sinceM c ∼- 130 GeV, atr > M −1c ,L is basically dominated by ordinary electromagnetism and as such very weakly dependent onr.
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Šoln, J. Dual electromagnetism and magnetic monopoles. Int J Theor Phys 24, 401–406 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00670807
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