Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2006-12-22
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
12 pages, submitted
Scientific paper
One of the main features of covariant theories, in particular general relativity, is that the field equation possesses gauge freedom associated with global diffeomorphisms of the underlying manifold. I shall explain here how the hole argument is a reflection of this gauge freedom. Finally I shall point out some implications of the hole argument and extend the hole argument to the case of permutable theories. As covariant theories provides a general mathematical framework for classical physics, permutable theories provide the language for quantum physics. Permutable theories are defined functorially on the category of sets and permutations with values into the category of fibered sets and fiber-preserving automorphisms, and rules of selecting sections. The hole argument for permutable theories is intimately related with the individuation problem of the base elements (e.g., elementary particles). This is a consequence of the fact that the automorphisms of the base space provides the gauge freedom of the fields.
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