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背景-独立

Background-Independence

Gordon Belot

摘要:

直观地说,如果解释经典场论方程所需的结构本身服从动力学演化,而不是从头算强加的,那么经典场论就是背景无关的。本文的目的是提供一个解释这个直观的概念。背景独立性不是理论的非形式属性:一个理论是否背景独立的问题取决于如何解释这个理论。在这里提出的方法下,如果每个物理可能性对应于一个不同的时空几何,那么一个理论相对于一个解释是完全背景独立的;如果这个条件不成立,那么它就不是完全背景独立的。

英文摘要:

Intuitively speaking, a classical field theory is background-independent if the structure required to make sense of its equations is itself subject to dynamical evolution, rather than being imposed ab initio. The aim of this paper is to provide an explication of this intuitive notion. Background-independence is not a not formal property of theories: the question whether a theory is background-independent depends upon how the theory is interpreted. Under the approach proposed here, a theory is fully background-independent relative to an interpretation if each physical possibility corresponds to a distinct spacetime geometry; and it falls short of full background-independence to the extent that this condition fails.

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