Who's afraid of coordinate systems? An essay on representation of spacetime structure

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2017.07.002MaRDI QIDQ2272839zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David Wallace

Publication date 16 September 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 http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/11988/1/coord_short.pdf

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Physics (00A79) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Axiomatics, foundations (70A05) Special relativity (83A05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05)

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