Spacetime boundaries do not break diffeomorphism and gauge symmetries
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F25%3A00144633" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/25:00144633 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/pwv6-tg7n" target="_blank" >https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/pwv6-tg7n</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/pwv6-tg7n" target="_blank" >10.1103/pwv6-tg7n</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Spacetime boundaries do not break diffeomorphism and gauge symmetries
Original language description
In general relativity and gauge field theory, one often encounters a claim, which may be called the boundary problem, according to which "boundaries break diffeomorphism and gauge symmetries". We argue that this statement has the same conceptual structure as the hole argument, and is thus likewise defused by the point-coincidence argument: We show that the boundary problem dissolves once it is understood that a physical region, thus its boundary, is relationally and invariantly defined. This insight can be technically implemented via the dressing field method, a systematic tool to exhibit the gauge-invariant content of general-relativistic gauge field theories, whereby physical field-theoretical degrees of freedom co-define each other and define, coordinatize, the physical spacetime. We illustrate our claim with a simple application to the case of general relativity.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10100 - Mathematics
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA24-10887S" target="_blank" >GA24-10887S: Cartan supergeometries and Higher Cartan geometries</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
ISSN
2470-0010
e-ISSN
2470-0029
Volume of the periodical
112
Issue of the periodical within the volume
12
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
1-12
UT code for WoS article
001651639600002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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