A What is the geometry of a gauge potential in the A-B experiment?

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Hi, this is a question about an article in the Scientific American magazine.

In 1981 Bernstein and Phillips wrote an article about fiber bundles and quantum fields, and I believe it's still a useful reference, the kind of thing lecturers would use at university.

Anyway, my question is, how do the authors determine that the geometry of the magnetic vector potential, in the original A-B experiment, is topologically a hemisphere, and that outside the solenoid the potential is geometrically a truncated cone?
 
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Do you have a link to the article? Concerning the geometry/topology and the AB effect a standard reference is

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