Field equations or conservation laws?
History and Philosophy of Physics
2015-10-30 v2 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
We explicate some epistemological implications of stationary principles and in particular of Noether Theorems. Noether's contribution to the problem of covariance, in fact, is epistemologically relevant, since it moves the attention from equations to conservation laws.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1309.4442,
title = {Field equations or conservation laws?},
author = {Mauro Francaviglia and Marcella Palese and Ekkehart Winterroth},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.4442},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
6 pages, misprints corrected, reference list updated, MSC added; presented at the XXXII Int. Congress of the Italian Society of Historians of Physics and Astronomy (SISFA), Rome 2012