3 papers
physics.hist-ph2018
The Geometry of Reduction: Model Embedding, Compound Reduction, and Overlapping State Space Domains
Joshua Rosaler
The relationship according to which one physical theory encompasses the domain of empirical validity of another is widely known as "reduction." Here it is argued that one popular m…
physics.hist-ph2018
Naturalness, Wilsonian Renormalization, and "Fundamental Parameters" in Quantum Field Theory
Joshua Rosaler, Robert Harlander
The Higgs naturalness principle served as the basis for the so far failed prediction that signatures of physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) would be discovered at the LHC. One i…
quant-ph2018
Inter-Theory Relations in Physics: Case Studies from Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory
Joshua Rosaler
The relationship that is widely presumed to hold between physical theories and their successors, in which the successors in some sense explain the success of the theories they repl…