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# Dirac monopole with Feynman brackets

Physics Letters A (Impact Factor: 1.63). 04/2000; DOI: 10.1016/S0375-9601(99)00016-X
Source: arXiv

ABSTRACT We introduce the magnetic angular momentum as a consequence of the structure of the sO(3) Lie algebra defined by the Feynman brackets. The Poincare momentum and Dirac magnetic monopole appears as a direct result of this framework. Comment: 10 pages

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