Dirac's Magnetic Monopoles (Again)

Abstract

Dirac's quantization of magnetic monopole strength is derived without reference to a (singular, patched) vector potential.

7 pages; 2 figures; talk prepared for Dirac Memorial, Tallahassee, Florida, December 2002; email correspondence to [email protected]

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