Pith. sign in

REVIEW 2 cited by

On the Meaning of Local Symmetries: Epistemic-Ontological Dialectics

Not yet reviewed by Pith; the record is open.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet. Machine review is queued; the pith claim, tier, and objections will appear here once it completes.

SPECIMEN: schema-true, not a live event

T0 review · schema-true

One-sentence machine reading of the paper's core claim.

pith:XXXXXXXX · record.json · timestamp

arxiv 2404.17449 v2 pith:SK4GQ67X submitted 2024-04-26 physics.hist-ph gr-qchep-thmath.DG

On the Meaning of Local Symmetries: Epistemic-Ontological Dialectics

classification physics.hist-ph gr-qchep-thmath.DG
keywords localsymmetriesarguegaugemeaningprincipleaccessaccount
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal T4 reserved
0 comments
read the original abstract

We propose our account of the meaning of local symmetries. We argue that the general covariance principle and gauge principle both are principles of democratic epistemic access to the law of physics, leading to ontological insights about the objective nature of spacetime. We further argue that relationality is a core notion of general-relativistic gauge field theory, tacitly encoded by its (active) local symmetries.

discussion (0)

Sign in with ORCID, Apple, or X to comment. Anyone can read and Pith papers without signing in.

Forward citations

Cited by 2 Pith papers

Reviewed papers in the Pith corpus that reference this work. Sorted by Pith novelty score.

  1. Relational bundle geometric formulation of non-relativistic quantum mechanics

    quant-ph 2025-01 unverdicted novelty 7.0

    Bundle geometric formulation of non-relativistic QM with relational reformulation via dressing field method allowing any particle as reference frame.

  2. Toward Manifest Relationality in Transformers via Symmetry Reduction

    cs.LG 2026-02 conditional novelty 6.0

    Transformer attention and parameter optimization can be rewritten on symmetry-reduced relational variables (Gram matrices and invariant parameter composites), removing coordinate redundancies by construction.