Background independence, diffeomorphism invariance, and the meaning of coordinates
<p>Diffeomorphism invariance is sometimes taken to be a criterion of background independence. This claim is commonly accompanied by a second, that the genuine physical magnitudes (the “observables”) of a background-independent theories and those of background-dependent (non-diffeomorphism-inva...
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Birkhäuser
2013
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