nLab Tai Tsun Wu

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Selected writings:

On the Aharonov-Bohm effect, generalized to non-abelian Yang-Mills theory and its description by connections on fiber bundles in physics:

• Tai Tsun Wu, Chen Ning Yang, Concept of nonintegrable phase factors and global formulation of gauge fields, Phys. Rev. D 12 (1975) 3845 [doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.12.3845]

The modern understanding of Dirac charge quantization and the Dirac monopole via connections on principal bundles:

• Tai Tsun Wu, Chen Ning Yang: Dirac’s Monopole Without Strings: Classical Lagrangian Theory, Phys. Rev. D 14 (1976) 437–445 [doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.14.437]

• Tai Tsun Wu, Chen Ning Yang: Dirac monopole without strings: monopole harmonics, Nuclear Physics B 107 3 (1976) 365–380 [doi:10.1016/0550-3213(76)90143-7]

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