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.2006.03.006zbMATH Open1223.83014arXivgr-qc/0604087OpenAlexW2152149587WikidataQ123143610 ScholiaQ123143610MaRDI QIDQ643073FDOQ643073

Authors: Luca Lusanna, Massimo Pauri 

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)

Abstract: "The last remnant of physical objectivity of space-time" is disclosed in the case of a continuous family of spatially non-compact models of general relativity (GR). The {it physical individuation} of point-events is furnished by the intrinsic degrees of freedom of the gravitational field, (viz, the {it Dirac observables}) that represent - as it were - the {it ontic} part of the metric field. The physical role of the {it epistemic} part (viz. the {it gauge} variables) is likewise clarified as emboding the unavoidable non-inertial aspects of GR. At the end the philosophical import of the {it Hole Argument} is substantially weakened and in fact the Argument itself dis-solved, while a specific four-dimensional {it holistic and structuralist} view of space-time, (called {it point-structuralism}), emerges, including elements common to the tradition of both {it substantivalism} and {it relationism}. The observables of our models undergo real {it temporal change}: this gives new evidence to the fact that statements like the {it frozen-time} character of evolution, as other ontological claims about GR, are {it model dependent}. medskip Forthcoming in Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics

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

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zbMATH Keywords

hole argumentstructuralismnon-inertial framesDirac observablesgauge variablesLeibniz equivalence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Physics (00A79) History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30)

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