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arxiv: 1703.03187 · v1 · submitted 2017-03-09 · 🧮 math.HO · gr-qc· physics.hist-ph

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The unexpected resurgence of Weyl geometry in late 20-th century physics

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Weyl's original scale geometry of 1918 ("purely infinitesimal geometry") was withdrawn by its author from physical theorizing in the early 1920s. It had a comeback in the last third of the 20th century in different contexts: scalar tensor theories of gravity, foundations of gravity, foundations of quantum mechanics, elementary particle physics, and cosmology. It seems that Weyl geometry continues to offer an open research potential for the foundations of physics even after the turn to the new millennium.

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