Some remarks on the notions of general covariance and background independence

Details Some remarks on the notions of general covariance and background independence Some remarks on the notions of general covariance and background independence

2006-03-22

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0603087v1

Lect.NotesPhys.721:105-120,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

26 pages, 3 figures. Contribution to ``An assessment of current paradigms in the physics of fundamental interactions'', edited

Scientific paper

10.1007/978-3-540-71117-9_6

In the first part of this paper I review some of the difficulties that seem to obstruct generally valid definitions of "general covariance" and/or "background independence" The second and more historical part deals with a rather strange argument that Einstein put forward in his 1913 "Entwurf paper" with M. Grossmann to discredit scalar theories of gravity in order to promote general covariance.

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