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The spacetime of a Dirac magnetic monopole

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dc.creator Lima Marcelo Costa de
dc.creator Soares Ivano Damião
dc.date 2002
dc.date.accessioned 2013-05-30T01:37:03Z
dc.date.available 2013-05-30T01:37:03Z
dc.date.issued 2013-05-30
dc.identifier http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-97332002000100033
dc.identifier http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=openurl&genre=article&issn=01039733&date=2002&volume=32&issue=1&spage=217
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/jspui/handle/123456789/3370
dc.description We construct a spacetime whose only source of curvature is a Dirac magnetic monopole, and whose geometry inherits the structure of lines of singularities of the monopole electromagnetic potentials. The spacetime has the topology S³ x R, is stationary and asymptotically at but not asymptotically Minkowskian, with its at null infinity having the topology of S³. These mild pathologies, as acausality and string structure, allow the spacetime configuration to have a gravitational magnetic mass, which results proportional to the charge mu of the monopole. This suggests that the Dirac monopole may be the source of magnetic mass in gravitational configurations, which has no Newtonian analogue. Alsomu has the role of a NUT parameter in the metric of the spacetime, suggesting that the charge of the monopole can provide a physical realization of the NUT parameter.
dc.publisher Sociedade Brasileira de Física
dc.source Brazilian Journal of Physics
dc.title The spacetime of a Dirac magnetic monopole


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