2 papers
physics.hist-ph2026
Global Gauge Symmetry Breaking in the Abelian Higgs Mechanism
Silvester G. A. Borsboom, Sebastian De Haro
This paper aims to resolve the incompatibility between two extant gauge-invariant accounts of the Abelian Higgs mechanism: the first account uses global gauge symmetry breaking, an…
physics.hist-ph2026
The Geometric View of Theories
Sebastian De Haro
Recent critiques of the semantic conception of scientific theories suggest that a theory is not best formulated as a collection of models satisfying some set of kinematical or dyna…