The hole argument and some physical and philosophical implications

DOI10.12942/lrr-2014-1zbMath1320.83016OpenAlexW2035537158WikidataQ30398240 ScholiaQ30398240MaRDI QIDQ2353449

John Stachel

Publication date: 14 July 2015

Published in: Living Reviews in Relativity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.12942/lrr-2014-1

zbMATH Keywords

general relativityphilosophy of sciencehole argumenthistory of sciencegeneral-relativistic Cauchy problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02) History of relativity and gravitational theory (83-03)

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