Prequantization of charge
- 1 May 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Vol. 15 (5) , 619-620
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1666695
Abstract
It is shown that a necessary and sufficient condition for quantization of relativistic dynamics of a particle with charge e moving in an external electromagnetic field F is that (e/2π)F should define an integral de Rham cohomology class on the space‐time manifold.Keywords
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