The nontriviality of trivial general covariance: how electrons restrict `time' coordinates, spinors (almost) fit into tensor calculus, and \(\frac{7}{16}\) of a tetrad is surplus structure
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Publication:2436207
DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2011.11.001zbMath1281.81039arXiv1111.4586OpenAlexW3102797937MaRDI QIDQ2436207
Publication date: 21 February 2014
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/1111.4586
Schwarzschild solutionspinorgeneral covariancefermionelectrongeometric objectconventionality of simultaneityabsolute objectnonlinear group representation
Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics (81R20) Physics (00A79) Quantum mechanics on special spaces: manifolds, fractals, graphs, lattices (81Q35)
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