James Read

The Philosophy and Physics of Noether's Theorems

Herausgeber: Teh, Nicholas J.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Noether's 1918 theorems revolutionised physics. This centenary volume brings together world-leading philosophers, physicists, historians and mathematicians in order to contextualise, apply, and extend Noether's results, ready for the next 100 years. It is an invaluable resource for students and researchers wishing to understand or apply this work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 849g
• ISBN-13: 9781108486231
• ISBN-10: 1108486231
• Artikelnr.: 63762344

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction James Read and Nicholas Teh; 1. The Noether theorems in
context Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach; 2. Felix Klein and Emmy Noether on
invariant theory and variational principles David Rowe; 3. Moscow, Oxford,
or Princeton: The move from Göttingen Tomoko Kitagawa; 4. Getting to the
bottom of Noether's theorem John Baez; 5. BV quantization in perturbative
algebraic QFT: Fundamental concepts and perspectives Kasia Rejzner; 6.
Divergence invariant variational problems Peter Olver; 7. Do symmetries
'explain' conservation laws? The modern converse Noether theorem versus
pragmatism Harvey Brown; 8. Converse of Noether's first theorem and the
energy-momentum tensor ambiguity problem Mark Baker, Niels Linnemann and
Christopher Smeenk; 9. Noether's theorems and energy in general relativity
Sebastian de Haro; 10. Geometric objects and perspectivalism James Read;
11. Substantive general covariance and the Einstein¿Klein dispute: A
Noetherian approach Laurent Freidel and Nicholas Teh; 12. Noether charges,
gauge-invariance, and non-separability Henrique Gomes; 13. Observability,
redundancy and modality for dynamical symmetry transformations David
Wallace; 14. The gauge argument: A Noether reason Henrique Gomes, Bryan
Roberts and Jeremy Butterfield.