Dual theories: `same but different' or `different but same'?

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2015.09.005zbMath1371.83075OpenAlexW2170008299MaRDI QIDQ2406919

Dean Rickles

Publication date: 4 October 2017

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/11354/1/dual.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

dualityquantum gravitystring theoryunderdeterminationtheory equivalence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Physics (00A79)

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