Two challenges to the requirement of substantive general covariance

DOI10.1007/S11229-004-6239-XzbMATH Open1099.83554OpenAlexW2087967858MaRDI QIDQ2500809FDOQ2500809

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

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Cites Work

• AN EXAMPLE RELEVANT TO THE KRETSCHMANN–EINSTEIN DEBATE
• Theories of Newtonian gravity and empirical indistinguishability
• Representations of spacetime diffeomorphisms. I: Canonical parametrized field theories. II: Canonical geometrodynamics
• Loop quantum gravity
• The cosmological constant, the fate of the universe, unimodular gravity, and all that

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• 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 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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