COMMENTS ON THE DEPENDENCE BETWEEN ELECTRIC CHARGE AND MAGNETIC CHARGE

2002/08/31 by Kang Li, KANG LI
Physics and Astronomy · #Electromagnetic Scattering and Analysis #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1142/s0217732302009350

published as Mod.Phys.Lett. A17 (2002) 2647 · 11 pages, no figures, Latex file

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Abstract

By using the two four-dimensional potential formulation of electromagnetic (EM) field theory introduced in Ref. 1, we found that the SO(2) duality symmetric EM field theory can be reduced to the magnetic source-free case by a special choice of SO(2) parameter, we called this special case nature picture of the EM field theory, the reduction condition led to a result, i.e. the electric charge and magnetic charge are no longer independent. Some comments to Ref. 10 are also mentioned.

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