Does the Higgs Mechanism Exist?

DOI10.1080/02698590802496664zbMath1158.81302arXiv0806.1359OpenAlexW1986520401MaRDI QIDQ3615090

Holger Lyre

Publication date: 17 March 2009

Published in: International Studies in the Philosophy of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.1359

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40)

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• Holism and structuralism in \(U(1)\) gauge theory
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• Philosophical foundations of quantum field theory
• Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Field Theory
• From Physics to Philosophy
• Curie's Principle and spontaneous symmetry breaking

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