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Duality, Fundamentality, and Emergence

Castellani, Elena and De Haro, Sebastian (2018) Duality, Fundamentality, and Emergence. [Preprint]

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We argue that dualities offer new possibilities for relating fundamentality, levels, and emergence. Namely, dualities often relate two theories whose hierarchies of levels are inverted relative to each other, and so allow for new fundamentality relations, as well as for epistemic emergence. We find that the direction of emergence typically found in these cases is opposite to the direction of emergence followed in the standard accounts. Namely, the standard emergence direction is that of decreasing fundamentality: there is emergence of less fundamental, high-level entities, out of more fundamental, low-level entities. But in cases of duality, a more fundamental entity can emerge out of a less fundamental one. This possibility can be traced back to the existence of different classical limits in quantum field theories and string theories.


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Castellani, Elenaelena.castellani@unifi.it
De Haro, Sebastiansd696@cam.ac.uk0000-0002-3000-5967
Keywords: Duality, fundamentality, emergence
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Gravity
Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Field Theory
Depositing User: Dr Sebastian De Haro
Date Deposited: 26 Mar 2018 13:35
Last Modified: 26 Mar 2018 13:35
Item ID: 14494
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Gravity
Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Field Theory
Date: 26 March 2018
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/14494

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