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Magnetic charge, holonomy and characteristic classes: Illustrations of the methods of topology in relativity

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Read on 19 May 1970 at the Gwatt Seminar on the Bearings of Topology upon General Relativity

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Clarke, C.J.S. Magnetic charge, holonomy and characteristic classes: Illustrations of the methods of topology in relativity. Gen Relat Gravit 2, 43–51 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02450517

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