Weyls search for a difference between `physical' and `mathematical' automorphisms

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2017.04.003zbMath1382.81015arXiv1510.00156OpenAlexW2964016841MaRDI QIDQ1705893

Erhard Scholz

Publication date: 19 March 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://arxiv.org/abs/1510.00156

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Representations of groups as automorphism groups of algebraic systems (20F29) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Physics (00A79) Groups as automorphisms of other structures (22F50)

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