Monopoles, Duality, and String Theory

Abstract

Dirac showed that the existence of magnetic monopoles would imply quantization of electric charge. I discuss the converse, and propose two `principles of completeness' which I illustrate with various examples.

arXiv commentPresented at the Dirac Centennial Symposium, Tallahassee, Dec. 6-7, 2002

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