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Angular momentum without rotation: turbocharging relationalism
Henrique Gomes, Sean Gryb
Newton's rotating bucket pours cold water on the naive relationalist by vividly illustrating how certain rotational effects, particularly those due to non-zero angular momentum, ca…
Geometrodynamics as Functionalism about Time
Henrique Gomes, Jeremy Butterfield
We review three broadly geometrodynamical---and in part, Machian or relational---projects, from the perspective of spacetime functionalism. We show how all three are examples of fu…
Functionalism as a Species of Reduction
J. Butterfield, H. Gomes
This is the first of four papers prompted by a recent literature about a doctrine dubbed spacetime functionalism. This paper gives our general framework for discussing functionalis…
Large gauge transformations, gauge invariance, and the QCD -term
Henrique Gomes, Aldo Riello
The eliminative view of gauge degrees of freedom -- the view that they arise solely from descriptive redundancy and are therefore eliminable from the theory -- is a lively topic of…