We compare two independent generalizations of the usual spherical harmonics, namely monopole harmonics and spin-weighted spherical harmonics, and make precise the sense in which they can be considered to be the same. By analogy with the spin-gauge language, raising and lowering operators for the monopole index of the monopole harmonics can immediately be written down.
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