Monopole

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Monopole may refer to:

• Magnetic monopole, or Dirac monopole, a hypothetical particle that may be loosely described as a magnet with only one pole
• Wu-Yang monopole, a monopole solution of Yang-Mills equations
• 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole, analogous to Dirac monopole, but without singularities
• Seiberg-Witten monopole, a solution of the Seiberg-Witten equations
• Monopole (mathematics), a connection over a principal bundle G with a section (the Higgs field) of the associated adjoint bundle
• Monopole (wine), an appellation owned by only one winery
• Monopole antenna, a radio antenna that replaces half of a dipole antenna with a ground plane at right-angles to the remaining half
• A monopole, a common term for a tubular self-supporting telecommunications mast, especially as distinguished from a lattice tower or pylon

[edit] See also

• Monopoly (disambiguation)
• Dipole
• Quadrupole
• Multipole expansion
• Multipole moments
• Solid harmonics
• Axial multipole moments
• Cylindrical multipole moments
• Spherical multipole moments
• Laplace expansion
• Legendre polynomials

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