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From Mass to Energy-Momentum: The Field-Theoretic Perspective on the Energy-Mass Relation
Patrick M. Duerr, J. Brian Pitts
The paper examines the energy-mass relation of Special Relativity (SR), its status and interpretation, through the lens of classical/non-quantum relativistic field theory. The latt…
First-Class Constraints, Gauge Transformations, de-Ockhamization, and Triviality: Replies to Critics, Or, How (Not) to Get a Gauge Transformation from a Second-Class Primary Constraint
J. Brian Pitts
Recently two pairs of authors have aimed to vindicate the longstanding conventional claim that a first-class constraint generates a gauge transformation in typical gauge theories s…
Peter Bergmann on Observables in Hamiltonian General Relativity: A Historical-Critical Investigation
J. Brian Pitts
The problem of observables and their supposed lack of change has been significant in Hamiltonian quantum gravity since the 1950s. This paper considers the unrecognized variety of i…
What Represents Space-time? And What Follows for Substantivalism \emph{vs.} Relationalism and Gravitational Energy?
J. Brian Pitts
The questions of what represents space-time in GR, the status of gravitational energy, the substantivalist-relationalist issue, and the (non)exceptional status of gravity are inter…
Change in Hamiltonian General Relativity with Spinors
J. Brian Pitts
In Hamiltonian GR, change has seemed to be missing, defined only asymptotically, or otherwise obscured at best. By construing change as essential time dependence, can one find chan…
The Field-Theoretic Approach in General Relativity and Other Metric Theories. A Review
A. N. Petrov, J. Brian Pitts
GR and other metric theories of gravity are formulated with an arbitrary auxiliary curved background in a Lagrangian formalism. A new sketch of how to include spinor fields is incl…