Mathematical Analogies in Physics: The Curious Case of Gauge Symmetries

DOI10.1007/978-3-031-21655-8_11MaRDI QIDQ6152199zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Guy Hetzroni, Noah Stemeroff

Publication date 12 February 2024

Published in Mathematical Knowledge, Objects and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/19716/1/Analogies%20Archive%20Preprint.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

naturalismHermann Weylapplicability of mathematicsidealismmathematical analogiesthe gauge argument

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Physics (00A79) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30)

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