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

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2017.07.002zbMath1421.83020MaRDI QIDQ2272839

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

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53Z05: Applications of differential geometry to physics

83C05: Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems)

83A05: Special relativity

00A79: Physics

70A05: Axiomatics, foundations