Nonexistence of spherically symmetric monopoles with multiple magnetic charge
- 15 September 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 14 (6) , 1660-1662
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.14.1660
Abstract
We show that in a spontaneously broken SU(2) gauge theory there are no field configurations with magnetic charge > 1 which are both spherically symmetric and of finite energy.Keywords
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