Symmetry and gauge freedom

DOI10.1016/S1355-2198(03)00004-2zbMath1222.81210OpenAlexW1977992266MaRDI QIDQ720560

Gordon Belot

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)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s1355-2198(03)00004-2

zbMATH Keywords

symmetrysymplectic reductiongauge theoriesHamiltonian mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15)

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