François, Jordan and Ravera, Lucrezia (2024) On the Meaning of Local Symmetries: Epistemic-Ontological Dialectics. [Preprint]
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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.
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| Keywords: | Local symmetries, Bundle geometry, General relativity, Gauge field theory, Relationality. | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Fields and Particles Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances |
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| Depositing User: | Dr Jordan François | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 29 Apr 2024 09:48 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 29 Apr 2024 09:48 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 23334 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Fields and Particles Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances |
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| Date: | 2024 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/23334 |
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