Explaining Leibniz equivalence as difference of non-inertial appearances: dis-solution of the hole argument and physical individuation of point-events

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2006.03.006zbMath1223.83014arXivgr-qc/0604087WikidataQ123143610 ScholiaQ123143610MaRDI QIDQ643073

Massimo Pauri, Luca Lusanna

Publication date: 27 October 2011

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0604087

zbMATH Keywords

non-inertial frames; hole argument; structuralism; Dirac observables; gauge variables; Leibniz equivalence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

00A30: Philosophy of mathematics

83C05: Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems)

01A45: History of mathematics in the 17th century

00A79: Physics

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