Holism and structuralism in \(U(1)\) gauge theory

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2004.07.004zbMath1222.81074OpenAlexW2113172398MaRDI QIDQ640093

Holger Lyre

Publication date: 17 October 2011

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2004.07.004

zbMATH Keywords

gauge symmetrygauge theoriesnon-separabilitystructural realismholismontological underdetermination

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) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Physics (00A79)

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