Rovelli, Carlo (2020) Gauge Is More Than Mathematical Redundancy. [Preprint]

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Physical systems may couple to other systems through variables that are not gauge invariant. When we split a gauge system into two subsystems, the gauge-invariant variables of the two subsystems have less information than the gauge-invariant variables of the original system; the missing information regards degrees of freedom that express relations between the subsystems. All this shows that gauge invariance is a formalization of the relational nature of physical degrees of freedom. The recent developments on boundary variables and boundary charges are clarified by this observation.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Rovelli, Carlo rovelli@cpt.univ-mrs.fr 0000-0003-1724-9737
Keywords:	Gauge
Subjects:	General Issues > Determinism/Indeterminism Specific Sciences > Physics > Fields and Particles Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory General Issues > Theory/Observation
Depositing User:	Carlo Rovelli
Date Deposited:	29 Sep 2020 13:12
Last Modified:	11 Jul 2024 13:09
Item ID:	18139
Subjects:	General Issues > Determinism/Indeterminism Specific Sciences > Physics > Fields and Particles Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory General Issues > Theory/Observation
Date:	September 2020
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/18139

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