March, Eleanor and Read, James and Chen, Lu (2025) Equivalence, reduction, and sophistication in teleparallel gravity. [Preprint]

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We discuss the (in)equivalence of various formulations of teleparallel gravity, building upon recent work by Weatherall and Meskhidze (2024). We then think about these different versions of teleparallel gravity from the point of view of reduction/sophistication---a distinction drawn by Dewar (2019) in the context of philosophical literature on symmetries---and along the way introduce and scrutinise the resources of Cartan geometry and of higher gauge theory.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID March, Eleanor eleanor.march@balliol.ox.ac.uk Read, James james.read@philosophy.ox.ac.uk Chen, Lu chen.l@usc.edu
Additional Information:	Forthcoming in European Journal for Philosophy of Science
Keywords:	Teleparallel gravity, general relativity, theoretical equivalence, categorical equivalence, reduction, sophistication, Cartan geometry, higher gauge theory
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances
Depositing User:	Dr. James Read
Date Deposited:	10 Apr 2025 14:28
Last Modified:	10 Apr 2025 14:28
Item ID:	25037
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances
Date:	9 April 2025
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/25037

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