The role of symmetry in the interpretation of physical theories

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2015.08.002zbMath1329.70048OpenAlexW1962198334MaRDI QIDQ905657

Adam Caulton

Publication date: 27 January 2016

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: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/11571/1/SymIntPhysThJul2015.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

symmetryinterpretationconventionconstitutive a prioriReichenbach

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Symmetries and conservation laws, reverse symmetries, invariant manifolds and their bifurcations, reduction for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H33) Physics (00A79)

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