Topological electromagnetism

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/25/6/020zbMath0747.57013OpenAlexW4245566262MaRDI QIDQ4008108

Antonio F. Rañada

Publication date: 27 September 1992

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/25/6/020

zbMATH Keywords

degreetopological structureHopf indexesmagnetic and electric helicitiesmaps from the 3-sphere to the 2-spherequantization of the electric chargeset of electromagnetic radiation fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Degree, winding number (55M25) Differential topology (57R99) General mathematical topics and methods in quantum theory (81Q99) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Homotopy groups of spheres (55Q40)

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