出版社：SISSA, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
摘要：The purpose of this work is to stress on a mathematical requirement of the Stokes’ theorem that,
naturally, yields a reassessment of the electric charge quantization condition, which is, here, explicitly
carried out in the context of the Aharonov-Bohm set-up. We argue that, by virtue of an
ambiguity in the definition of the circulation of the vector potential, amodified quantization condition
comes out for the electric charge that opens the way for understanding fundamental fractional
charges. One does not, any longer, need to rely on the existence of a magnetic monopole to justify
electric charge quantization.
