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Against Pointillisme about Mechanics
Jeremy Butterfield
This paper forms part of a wider campaign: to deny pointillisme. That is the doctrine that a physical theory's fundamental quantities are defined at points of space or of spacetime…
Against Pointillisme about Geometry
Jeremy Butterfield
This paper forms part of a wider campaign: to deny pointillisme. That is the doctrine that a physical theory's fundamental quantities are defined at points of space or of spacetime…
On Symplectic Reduction in Classical Mechanics
Jeremy Butterfield
This paper expounds the modern theory of symplectic reduction in finite-dimensional Hamiltonian mechanics. This theory generalizes the well-known connection between continuous symm…
On Symmetry and Conserved Quantities in Classical Mechanics
Jeremy Butterfield
This paper expounds the relations between continuous symmetries and conserved quantities, i.e. Noether's ``first theorem'', in both the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian frameworks for cl…