Falling cats, parallel parking, and polarized light

DOI10.1016/S1355-2198(03)00062-5zbMATH Open1222.81182WikidataQ56830510 ScholiaQ56830510MaRDI QIDQ720543FDOQ720543

Authors: Robert W. Batterman 

Publication date: 17 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)

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zbMATH Keywords

gauge theoryfiber bundlesBerry phasegeometric phasemonopolesAharonovBohm effectpolarized light

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70)

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• Which gauge matters?
• Holism and structuralism in \(U(1)\) gauge theory
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• The role of idealizations in the Aharonov-Bohm effect
• A simple model for the falling cat problem

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