Re: Are mass, charge, and spin topolocial invariants?

Posted by Haelfix on July 05, 2003 at 14:16:56:

In Reply to: Are mass, charge, and spin topolocial invariants? posted by Mike2 on July 05, 2003 at 08:05:48:

I don't know about String theory, but in modern guage theories, charge can be abstracted into a topological invariant.

For instance magnetic monopoles are directly related to the Chern class.

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