Why is the transference theory of causation insufficient? The challenge of the Aharonov-Bohm effect

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2017.09.009zbMath1395.81108OpenAlexW2761832365MaRDI QIDQ1672346

Alexandre Guay, Vincent Ardourel

Publication date: 7 September 2018

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2017.09.009

zbMATH Keywords

modalitycausalityinteractionAharonov-Bohm effectconserved quantitytransference theoryFeynman's functional integrals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Feynman integrals and graphs; applications of algebraic topology and algebraic geometry (81Q30) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70) Physics (00A79)

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