A Note on Rovelli's 'Why Gauge?'

作者：Teh Nicholas J^*

来源：European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 2015, 5(3): 339-348.

DOI：10.1007/s13194-015-0109-x

• Philosophy of gauge theory
• Yang-Mills
• Physical significance of gauge dependence
• Invariance
• Symmetries

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.

• 出版日期2015-10