Inferring conservation laws in particle physics: A case study in the problem of induction

DOI10.1093/BJPS/51.4.771MaRDI QIDQ2711222zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Oliver Schulte

Publication date 26 July 2001

Published in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/51.4.771

zbMATH Keywords

particle physicsproblem of inductionconservation principlesinference procedureobserved reactions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetries and conservation laws, reverse symmetries, invariant manifolds and their bifurcations, reduction for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H33) Dynamics of a system of particles, including celestial mechanics (70F99)

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