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Wait, Why Gauge?British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. forthcoming.Philosophers of physics have spent much effort unpacking the structure of gauge theories. But surprisingly, little attention has been devoted to the question of why we should require our best theories to be locally gauge invariant in the first place. Drawing on Steven Weinberg's works in the mid-1960s, I argue that the principle of local gauge invariance follows from Lorentz invariance and other natural assumptions in the context of perturbative relativistic quantum field theory. On this view, g…Read more
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Ludwig Maximilians Universität, MünchenPost-doctoral Fellow
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Physics, Miscellaneous |
Gauge Theories |
Symmetry in Physics |
Space and Time |