I Magnetic Charges & Lorentz Invariance: Finding Papers

[nenyan]

How to find some papers on Lorentz invariant extensioning of standard electromagnetism that include magnetic charges

 

[vanhees71]

I still find Dirac's original papers the best intro ever written

P. A. M. Dirac, Quantised Singularities in the Electromagnetic Field, Proc. Roy. Soc. A 133, 60 (1931), http://www.jstor.org/stable/95639
P. A. M. Dirac, Theory of Magnetic Poles, Phys. Rev. 74, 817 (1948), http://link.aps.org/abstract/PR/v74/i7/p817

A very elegant modern treatment is the following:

T. T. Wu and C. N. Yang, Concept of nonintegrable phase factors and global formulation of gauge fields, Phys. Rev. D 12, 3845 (1975),[PLAIN]http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v12/i12/p3845[/PLAIN]
http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v12/i12/p3845.

 

[robphy]

Possibly useful... I haven't read any of these myself... but they might be of interest in the classical aspects of this topic.

Classical Theory of Magnetic Monopoles
F. Rohrlich
Phys. Rev. 150, 1104 – Published 28 October 1966
http://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.150.1104

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=Classical+Theory+of+Magnetic+Monopoles&btnG=&as_sdt=1,50
(possibly useful to consult the list of papers that cite it or related articles)Resource Letter MM-1: Magnetic monopoles
Alfred S. Goldhaber and W. Peter Trower
Am. J. Phys. 58, 429 (1990); http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.16474
http://scitation.aip.org/content/aapt/journal/ajp/58/5/10.1119/1.16474

Symmetry in electrodynamics: A classical approach to magnetic monopoles
W. B. Zeleny
Am. J. Phys. 59, 412 (1991); http://dx.doi.org.silk.library.umass.edu/10.1119/1.16519
(and look further in that journal for comments on it)

 

[nenyan]

Possibly useful... I haven't read any of these myself... but they might be of interest in the classical aspects of this topic.

Thank you!

 

[nenyan]

I still find Dirac's original papers the best intro ever written

Thank you very much.