The fundamentality of fields

DOI10.1007/S11229-022-03844-2MaRDI QIDQ6836596zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Charles T. Sebens

Publication date 27 March 2026

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S11229-022-03844-2

zbMATH Keywords

Dirac fieldquantum electrodynamicsquantum field theorywave functionals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05)

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