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A magnetic monopole is a hypothetical particle with only one magnetic pole. Their magnetic fields would not be divergence-less. Predicted by certain modern theories, including string theory, supergravity, and various popular grand unified theories.

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Why don't magnetic monopoles exist?

I think that John Rennie's is a good answer, specially due to the link given where it is shown the reasons why physicists expect the magnetic monopoles to exist. However I would like to stress that th …
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Magnetic monopoles gauge theories

1) Universal covering groups are groups with the property of being simply connected. Each algebra has a unique covering group. The other groups, $\{G\}$, associated to the same algebra can be obtaine …
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Left-right topology

In order for a theory to present stable monopole solutions it has to satisfy three requirements: i) It has to have the topological conditions, generally showed as non trivial second homotopy group of …
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Question from Terning's book

Because the static solution considered is the 't Hooft and Polyakov monopole. There is no (non-Abelian) electric field in this case. A more general solution would be a dyon and then the electric field …
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Symmetry in electricity and magnetism due to magnetic monopoles

You actually noticed something that is called electromagnetic duality. A duality correspond to two different theories which give the same physical results as long as we make specific mappings among th …
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