Conservation, inertia, and spacetime geometry

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2017.09.007zbMath1421.83021arXiv1702.01642OpenAlexW2964215602MaRDI QIDQ2272841

James Owen Weatherall

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: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.01642

zbMATH Keywords

unimodular gravityGeneral relativityNewton-Cartan theoryHarvey Brownphysical relativitypuzzleball viewteves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic conservation laws (35L65) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Special relativity (83A05) Physics (00A79) Axiomatics, foundations (70A05)

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