Similarity, Topology, and Physical Significance in Relativity Theory

DOI10.1093/bjps/axu044zbMath1360.83007OpenAlexW2052435875MaRDI QIDQ2965437

Samuel Craig Fletcher

Publication date: 3 March 2017

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

Full work available at URL: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/17235/4/FletcherSamuel2014PhD_1Similarity.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

similaritytopologytopological stabilityrelativity theoryphysical significance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological characterizations of particular spaces (54F65) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

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