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Pushing Einstein’s Principles to the Extreme

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Quantum Fields and Quantum Space Time

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((NSSB,volume 364))

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In these lectures I propose to push Einsteins principle of coordinate independence to the extreme in order to restrict the possible form of fundamental equations of motion in physics. I start from nearly tautological system theoretic axioms. They provide a minimal amount of a priori structure which is thought to be characteristic of human thinking in general. It is shown how formal discretizations of Maxwell and Yang Mills theory in flat space and of general relativity in Ashtekar variables fit into this frame work.

Work supported in part by the German Israel foundation

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  1. II. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, D - 22761, Hamburg, Germany

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  1. University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Gerard ’t Hooft

  2. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Arthur Jaffe

  3. University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Gerhard Mack

  4. CNRS, University of Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France

    Pronob K. Mitter

  5. Laboratory of Particle Physics, Annecy-le-Vieux, Annecy-le-Vieux, France

    Raymond Stora

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Mack, G. (1997). Pushing Einstein’s Principles to the Extreme. In: ’t Hooft, G., Jaffe, A., Mack, G., Mitter, P.K., Stora, R. (eds) Quantum Fields and Quantum Space Time. NATO ASI Series, vol 364. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1801-7_8

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