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   Format: MarkdownItexadded an illustration ([here](https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Dirac+charge+quantization#Illustration)) <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/Dirac+charge+quantization/13">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/Dirac+charge+quantization/13">v13</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Dirac+charge+quantization">current</a>

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   Format: MarkdownItexadded more references <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/Dirac+charge+quantization/13">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/Dirac+charge+quantization/13">v13</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Dirac+charge+quantization">current</a>

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   Format: MarkdownItexadded an illustration of "Atiyah-Hitchin charge quantization" in complex-rational Cohomotopy ([here](https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Dirac+charge+quantization#IllustrationAtiyahHitchinQuantization)) <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/Dirac+charge+quantization/14">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/Dirac+charge+quantization/14">v14</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Dirac+charge+quantization">current</a>

   added an illustration of “Atiyah-Hitchin charge quantization” in complex-rational Cohomotopy (here)

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   Format: MarkdownItexadded pointer to: * [[Orlando Alvarez]], _Topological quantization and cohomology_, Comm. Math. Phys. Volume 100, Number 2 (1985), 279-309 ([euclid:cmp/1103943448](https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.cmp/1103943448)) <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/Dirac+charge+quantization/20">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/Dirac+charge+quantization/20">v20</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Dirac+charge+quantization">current</a>

   added pointer to:

   • Orlando Alvarez, Topological quantization and cohomology, Comm. Math. Phys. Volume 100, Number 2 (1985), 279-309 (euclid:cmp/1103943448)

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   Format: MarkdownItexadded pointer to: * [[Daniel S. Freed]], [[Gregory W. Moore]], [[Graeme Segal]], p. 7 of: *The Uncertainty of Fluxes*, Commun. Math. Phys. 271:247-274, 2007 ([arXiv:hep-th/0605198](https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0605198), [doi:10.1007/s00220-006-0181-3](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-006-0181-3)) <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/Dirac+charge+quantization/27">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/Dirac+charge+quantization/27">v27</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Dirac+charge+quantization">current</a>

   added pointer to:

   • Daniel S. Freed, Gregory W. Moore, Graeme Segal, p. 7 of: The Uncertainty of Fluxes, Commun. Math. Phys. 271:247-274, 2007 (arXiv:hep-th/0605198, doi:10.1007/s00220-006-0181-3)

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   Format: MarkdownItexadded pointer to: * K. S. Babu and Rabindra N. Mohapatra, *Quantization of electric charge from anomaly constraints and a Majorana neutrino*, Phys. Rev. D **41** (1990) 271 &lbrack;[doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.41.271](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.41.271)&rbrack; <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/Dirac+charge+quantization/34">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/Dirac+charge+quantization/34">v34</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Dirac+charge+quantization">current</a>

   added pointer to:

   • K. S. Babu and Rabindra N. Mohapatra, Quantization of electric charge from anomaly constraints and a Majorana neutrino, Phys. Rev. D 41 (1990) 271 [doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.41.271]

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   Format: MarkdownItexadded these pointers: * [[Julian Schwinger]], *Magnetic Charge and Quantum Field Theory*, Phys. Rev. **144** (1966) 1087 &lbrack;[doi:10.1103/PhysRev.144.1087](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.144.1087)&rbrack; * [[Daniel Zwanziger]], *Quantum Field Theory of Particles with Both Electric and Magnetic Charges*, Phys. Rev. **176** (1968) 1489 &lbrack;[doi:10.1103/PhysRev.176.1489](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.176.1489)&rbrack; * [[Luis Alvarez-Gaumé]], Frederic Zamora, Section II in: *Duality in Quantum Field Theory (and String Theory)*, AIP Conference Proceedings **423** (1998) 46–83 &lbrack;[arXiv:hep-th/9709180](https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9709180), [doi:10.1063/1.55087](https://doi.org/10.1063/1.55087)&rbrack; <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/Dirac+charge+quantization/35">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/Dirac+charge+quantization/35">v35</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Dirac+charge+quantization">current</a>

   added these pointers:

   • Julian Schwinger, Magnetic Charge and Quantum Field Theory, Phys. Rev. 144 (1966) 1087 [doi:10.1103/PhysRev.144.1087]

   • Daniel Zwanziger, Quantum Field Theory of Particles with Both Electric and Magnetic Charges, Phys. Rev. 176 (1968) 1489 [doi:10.1103/PhysRev.176.1489]

   • Luis Alvarez-Gaumé, Frederic Zamora, Section II in: Duality in Quantum Field Theory (and String Theory), AIP Conference Proceedings 423 (1998) 46–83 [arXiv:hep-th/9709180, doi:10.1063/1.55087]

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   Format: MarkdownItexadded pointer to: * [[Orlando Alvarez]], *Cohomology and Field Theory*, talk at: *Symposium on Anomalies, Geometry, Topology*, Argonne IL (28-30 March 1985) &lbrack;[inspire:965785](https://inspirehep.net/conferences/965785), [pdf](https://lib-extopc.kek.jp/preprints/PDF/1985/8507/8507262.pdf)&rbrack; <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/Dirac+charge+quantization/40">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/Dirac+charge+quantization/40">v40</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Dirac+charge+quantization">current</a>

   added pointer to:

   • Orlando Alvarez, Cohomology and Field Theory, talk at: Symposium on Anomalies, Geometry, Topology, Argonne IL (28-30 March 1985) [inspire:965785, pdf]

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   Format: MarkdownItexand this review: * Guillermo A. González, *Cohomologa de Cĕch y Cuantización Topológica de Parámetros Físicos*, Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales **47** 182 (2023) 51-71 &lbrack;[doi:10.18257/raccefyn.1782](https://doi.org/10.18257/raccefyn.1782)&rbrack; <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/Dirac+charge+quantization/40">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/Dirac+charge+quantization/40">v40</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Dirac+charge+quantization">current</a>

   and this review:

   • Guillermo A. González, Cohomologa de Cĕch y Cuantización Topológica de Parámetros Físicos, Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales 47 182 (2023) 51-71 [doi:10.18257/raccefyn.1782]

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    Format: MarkdownItexadded a References-section ([here](https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Dirac+charge+quantization#ReferencesDBraneChargeQuantizationInOrdinaryCohomology)) on attempts to discuss D-brane charge quantization in *ordinary* cohomology. (Just two references so far, that I recently happened to look at. But there is no other good place to list them.) <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/Dirac+charge+quantization/47">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/Dirac+charge+quantization/47">v47</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Dirac+charge+quantization">current</a>

    added a References-section (here) on attempts to discuss D-brane charge quantization in ordinary cohomology.

    (Just two references so far, that I recently happened to look at. But there is no other good place to list them.)

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