A Note on Rovelli’s ‘Why Gauge?’

European Journal for Philosophy of Science 5 (3):339-348 (2015)
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Abstract

Rovelli’s “Why Gauge?” offers a parable to show that gauge-dependent quantities have a modal and relational physical significance. We subject the morals of this parable to philosophical scrutiny and argue that, while Rovelli’s main point stands, there are important disanalogies between his parable and Yang-Mills type gauge theory

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