The magic world of geometry. III: The Dirac string problem

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Authors Vagn Lundsgaard Hansen

Publication date 10 April 1996

Published in Elemente der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/141568

zbMATH Keywords

braidsDirac stringelastic strings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes (57-01) Linear elasticity with initial stresses (74B10)

Review text

[For Part I see Zbl 0812.52004, for Part II see Zbl 0809.57005).] Consider a solid body connected by an elastic string to a post and by another two elastic strings to another post. Dirac's problem of removing the twist obtained by a double rotation about \(2 \pi\) for the two strings through continuous deformations is solved by using arguments from the theory of braids.

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