In defence of naiveté: the conceptual status of Lagrangian quantum field theory
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DOI10.1007/s11229-004-6248-9zbMath1102.81014arXivquant-ph/0112148OpenAlexW2073956434MaRDI QIDQ857675
Publication date: 20 December 2006
Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0112148
General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum field theory; related classical field theories (81Txx)
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