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The Aharonov-Bohm effect: reality and folklore
Henrique Gomes
The Aharonov-Bohm (A-B) effect has been a major focus of the foundations of physics. And yet, much confusion persists. In particular, the effect purportedly leads to a dilemma: on…
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Charge quantisation without compactness: the Higgs and Yukawa mechanisms from matter geometry
Henrique Gomes
In the \emph{geometry-first} formulation of gauge theory \citep{Gomes_internal}, Hermitian vector bundles and their covariant derivatives are the primitive objects. Here gauge grou…
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Boundaries, frames and the issue of physical covariance
Henrique Gomes, Simon Langenscheidt, Daniele Oriti
We focus on three distinct lines of recent developments: edge modes and boundary charges in gravitational physics, relational dynamics in classical and quantum gravity, and quantum…