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Why gauge? Conceptual Aspects of Gauge theories

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arxiv 2203.05339 v1 pith:B3RYM4WR submitted 2022-03-10 physics.hist-ph gr-qchep-th

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This thesis is about conceptual aspects of gauge theories. Gauge theories lie at the heart of modern physics: in particular, they constitute the standard model of particle physics. At its simplest, the idea of gauge is that nature is best described using a descriptively redundant language; the different descriptions are said to be related by a gauge symmetry. The over-arching question the thesis aims to answer is: how can descriptive redundancy be fruitful for physics?

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