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What Price Fiber Bundle Substantivalism? On How to Avoid Holes in Fibers
Philipp Berghofer, Jordan François, Lucrezia Ravera
On a mathematically foundational level, our most successful physical theories (gauge field theories and general-relativistic theories) are formulated in a framework based on the di…
physics.hist-ph2024
Motivating Gauge-Invariant Approaches to Particle Physics
Philipp Berghofer
There is noticeable consensus among physicists and philosophers that only gauge-invariant quantities can be physically real. However, this insight that physical quantities must be…
physics.hist-ph2024
Dressing vs. Fixing: On How to Extract and Interpret Gauge-Invariant Content
Philipp Berghofer, Jordan François
There is solid consensus among physicists and philosophers that, in gauge field theory, for a quantity to be physically meaningful or real, it must be gauge-invariant. Yet, every "…