“…The Wu-Yang monopoles (actually Wu-Yang solutions [101]) may be interpreted as non-Abelian versions of the Dirac magnetic monopole [102] (for a review, see e.g., [103,104]), and they are a very important gauge class for quantum chromodynamics with instanton-like configurations [105]. It should also be emphasized that the magnetic monopole solutions (i.e., topological solitons [106]) together with the dyon, instanton, and meron solutions play very significant roles, not only in 4D Einstein-Yang-Mills-Higgs (EYMH) theories [107][108][109][110] but also in (non)-Abelian Kaluza-Klein theories [111][112][113][114][115][116][117][118][119][120], since they show explicitly the interaction between the gravitational, gauge, and dilatonic fields, although they are not experimentally observed. On the other hand, despite being the simplest acceptable non-Abelian models [121], the 6D and 7D theories are not as physically attractive as the 5D Abelian and 11D supergravity and superstring models.…”