Magnetic Monopoles

• Dirac Monopole.- Magnetic Monopole in Classical Theory.- The Electron-Monopole System:Quantum-Mechanical Interaction.- Topological Roots of the Abelian Monopole.- Abelian Monopole: Relativistic Quantum Theory.- Monopole in Non-Abelian Gauge Theories.- ’t Hooft-Polyakov Monopole.- Multimonopole Configurations.- SU(2) Monopole in Quantum Theory.- Monopoles Beyond SU(2) Group.- Monopoles and the Problem of Confinement.- Fermions in the Field of Non-Abelian Monopole and Rubakov—Callan Effect.- Supersymmetric Monopoles.- Construction of Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theories.- Magnetic Monopoles in the N = 2 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory.- Seiberg—Witten Solution of N = 2 SUSY Yang—Mills Theory.

From the reviews of the first edition: "The modern era of the monopolic theory started in 1974 when Hooft and, independently, Polyakov found monopole solutions in quantum field theory ... . This ... is the subject of the carefully designed book by Shnir. It is written mainly for researchers and advanced students in theoretical physics and is to my knowledge the first coherent presentation of the subject." (Gert Roepstorff, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1084, 2006)