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Apropos the continuing discussion of the observability of the magnetic charge (the Dirac monopole [1]), there is interest in investigating the dual symmetry of the spin equations of motion in classical and quantum theory. It is known that in dual symmetry theory the presence of a magnetic charge is a simple consequence of the dual invariance of the equations of electrodynamics [2], The matter of the observability of a magnetic charge is not tackled there, and becomes only “experimentally verifiable” [2, p. 64].
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnkh, Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 7, pp. 56–59, July, 1932.
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Bordovitsyn, V.A., Sorokin, S.V. Dual symmetry in classical and quantum spin theory. Soviet Physics Journal 25, 632–634 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00911793
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