On the Meaning of Local Symmetries: Epistemic-ontological Dialectics.

• Tác giả: J François, L Ravera
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 004.678 Internet (World Wide Web)
• Thông tin xuất bản: United States : Foundations of physics , 2025
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 748851

Tóm tắt

We propose our account of the meaning of local symmetries. We argue that the general covariance principle and gauge principle both are principles of democratic epistemic access to the law of physics, leading to ontological insights about the objective nature of spacetime. We further argue that relationality is a core notion of general-relativistic gauge field theory, tacitly encoded by its (active) local symmetries.