Spacetime as a fundamental and inalienable structure of fields

2025-02-18 Classification：Philosophy Click()
Author：Auyang, SY

Article Title：Spacetime as a fundamental and inalienable structure of fields

Abstract：
This paper offers an alternative view of spacetime different from both substantivalism and relationism. Using basic ideas underlying the fiber bundle formulation of field theories, it illustrates the function of spacetime in individuating local fields. As the system of numerical identities for entities that we can individually refer to, spacetime is an intrinsic, indispensable, and inalienable structure of the physical world with distinct entities. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

Keywords: spacetime; field ontology; individuation; gauge field theory; fiber bundle

DOI: 10.1016/S1355-2198(01)00006-5

Source：STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN PHYSICS

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