Classical SU(3) gauge theory and magnetic monopoles
- 15 August 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 12 (4), 1093-1095
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.12.1093
Abstract
We construct a topologically stable solution to the pure Yang-Mills SU(3) gauge field equations (without scalar fields) which corresponds to a point magnetic monopole. There is no SU(2) analog to this solution.Keywords
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