On representational capacities, with an application to general relativity

DOI10.1007/s10701-018-0208-6zbMath1436.83007OpenAlexW2888286300MaRDI QIDQ1985875

Samuel Craig Fletcher

Publication date: 7 April 2020

Published in: Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/17231/1/elvis.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

unitsrepresentationgeneral relativityisomorphismabstractionhole argumentmodels in science

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05)

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