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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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID François, Jordan jordanfrancois54@gmail.com Ravera, Lucrezia lucrezia.ravera@polito.it 0000-0003-4516-5127
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
Depositing User:	Dr Jordan François
Date Deposited:	05 May 2024 08:34
Last Modified:	05 May 2024 08:34
Item ID:	23353
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Fields and Particles Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances
Date:	2024
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/23353

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