Bradley, Clara (2024) The Extended Hamiltonian Is Not Trivial. [Preprint]
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This paper critically analyzes an argument made by Pitts (2022, 2024) that extending the form of the Hamiltonian constitutes a trivial reformulation of a theory and therefore doesn’t provide insight into the gauge transformations. I argue that a trivial reformulation cannot be used to add new gauge transformations to a theory, and I show that the sense in which extending the form of the Hamiltonian is nontrivial is that it removes structure.
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| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Classical Physics General Issues > Structure of Theories Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances |
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| Depositing User: | Clara Bradley | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 28 Aug 2024 03:35 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 28 Aug 2024 03:35 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 23802 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Classical Physics General Issues > Structure of Theories Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances |
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| Date: | 27 August 2024 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/23802 |
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