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Why gauge? Conceptual Aspects of Gauge theories

Henrique Gomes
(
- Trinity Coll., Cambridge
)

2021

210 pages

Supervisor:

Jeremy Butterfield

Thesis: PhD

Trinity Coll., Cambridge

(2021)

e-Print:

2203.05339 [physics.hist-ph]

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Abstract: (arXiv)

This thesis is about conceptual aspects of gauge theories. Gauge theories lie at the heart of modern physics: in particular, they constitute the standard model of particle physics. At its simplest, the idea of gauge is that nature is best described using a descriptively redundant language; the different descriptions are said to be related by a gauge symmetry. The over-arching question the thesis aims to answer is: how can descriptive redundancy be fruitful for physics?

Note:

PhD thesis, 210 pages

symmetry: gauge
gauge field theory
general relativity
diffeomorphism
fibre bundle
symmetry: Noether
electromagnetic field
philosophy

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