Imprints of the underlying structure of physical theories

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2019.06.005MaRDI QIDQ2008994zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jorge Manero

Publication date 26 November 2019

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.2019.06.005

zbMATH Keywords

Lie group theorysymplectic groupontic structural realismtheory changepartial structuressurplus structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Physics (00A79) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05)

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