A partial elucidation of the gauge principle

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2008.01.001zbMath1223.81135MaRDI QIDQ643463

Alexandre Guay

Publication date: 31 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: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/3815/1/interfolio.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

gauge symmetry; Yang-Mills theory; BRST symmetry; gauge principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

00A30: Philosophy of mathematics

81P05: General and philosophical questions in quantum theory

81T13: Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory

81T70: Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods

00A79: Physics

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