Two challenges to the requirement of substantive general covariance

DOI10.1007/S11229-004-6239-XMaRDI QIDQ2500809zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John Earman

Publication date 18 August 2006

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-004-6239-x

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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• The hole argument and some physical and philosophical implications
• Substantive general covariance and the Einstein-Klein dispute: a Noetherian approach
• Explaining Leibniz equivalence as difference of non-inertial appearances: dis-solution of the hole argument and physical individuation of point-events
• Einstein's principle of equivalence and the heuristic significance of general covariance
• Can there be a process without time? Processualism within timeless physics
• On the meaning of the principle of general covariance
• Another look at general covariance and the equivalence of reference frames
• Constraining the physical state by symmetries
• On the multiple deaths of Whitehead's theory of gravity
• The relativity of inertia and reality of nothing
• Background independence: lessons for further decades of dispute

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