The practice of naturalness: a historical-philosophical perspective

DOI10.1007/s10701-019-00287-7zbMath1431.81168arXiv1904.01450OpenAlexW3101452375WikidataQ127337800 ScholiaQ127337800MaRDI QIDQ2286547

Elena Castellani, Arianna Borrelli

Publication date: 22 January 2020

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01450

zbMATH Keywords

renormalization groupnaturalnessphysics beyond the standard modelKenneth Wilsonhistorical contextualization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of quantum theory (81-03) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) History of mathematics in the 21st century (01A61) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17)

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