GENERAL COVARIANCE, DIFFEOMORPHISM INVARIANCE, AND BACKGROUND INDEPENDENCE IN 5 DIMENSIONS.
The paper considers the "GR-desideratum," that is, the way general relativity implements general covariance, diffeomorphism invariance, and background independence. Two cases are discussed where 5-dimensional generalizations of general relativity run into interpretational troubles when the GR-deside...
| Publicado en: | Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences & the Humanities Vol. 104; pp. 237 - 259 |
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Brill / Rodopi
Dec2015
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| Sumario: | The paper considers the "GR-desideratum," that is, the way general relativity implements general covariance, diffeomorphism invariance, and background independence. Two cases are discussed where 5-dimensional generalizations of general relativity run into interpretational troubles when the GR-desideratum is forced upon them. It is shown how the conceptual problems dissolve when such a desideratum is relaxed. In the end, it is suggested that a similar strategy might mitigate some major issues such as the problem of time or the embedding of quantum non-locality into relativistic spacetimes. |
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