Some crank-fodder (charge and topology)

From: Timo Nieminen (timo_at_physics.uq.edu.au)
Date: 01/27/05 

Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:11:45 +1000

Perhaps of interest:

Rafael Sorkin "On the relation between charge and topology"
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 10(5),
717-725 (1977), erratum pg 795, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen., Vol. 11, No. 4,
1978.

Abstract:
The generalization of Stokes' theorem to non-orientable manifolds shows
that a suitable topology can appear to carry net electromagnetic charge.
By treating this as the origin of electric charge in nature one explains
the non-existence of magnetic monopoles. 

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