Motivating dualities
There exists a common view that for theories related by a ‘duality’, dual models typically may be taken ab initio to represent the same physical state of affairs, i.e. to correspond to the same possible world. We question this view, by drawing a parallel with the distinction between ‘interpretationa...
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description | There exists a common view that for theories related by a ‘duality’, dual models typically may be taken ab initio to represent the same physical state of affairs, i.e. to correspond to the same possible world. We question this view, by drawing a parallel with the distinction between ‘interpretational’ and ‘motivational’ approaches to symmetries. |
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spelling | oxford-uuid:dc135d99-7586-4de7-8cc2-c4380e75478f2022-03-27T09:15:11ZMotivating dualitiesJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:dc135d99-7586-4de7-8cc2-c4380e75478fEnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordSpringer Verlag2018Read, JMøller-Nielsen, TThere exists a common view that for theories related by a ‘duality’, dual models typically may be taken ab initio to represent the same physical state of affairs, i.e. to correspond to the same possible world. We question this view, by drawing a parallel with the distinction between ‘interpretational’ and ‘motivational’ approaches to symmetries. |
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title | Motivating dualities |
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