Quantisation of monopoles with non-abelian magnetic charge

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 512, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 250-294

  Bais, F A ^a   Schroers, B J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Monopole moduli spaces; Monopole quantisation; Non abelian magnetic monopoles; S duality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032536219     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00778-5     Document Type: Article

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