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Gauge Structure
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Historical Context and Initial Formulation
The initial insights into gauge invariance emerged from the work on electromagnetism. Hermann Weyl first proposed the concept of gauge invariance in 1918, attempting to unify gravitation and electromagnetism. Weyl postulated a scale invariance in the metric tensor, suggesting that physical measurements should remain unchanged if all measuring rods were simultaneously scaled by a spatially varying factor [3]. Th… -
Gauge Theory
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The initial motivation for gauge invariance arose in classical electromagnetism through the work of Hermann von Helmholtz in the 1870s, long before its modern quantum mechanical formulation. Helmholtz sought a description of electrodynamics where the physics was independent of the choice of scalar potential ($\phi$) and vector potential ($\mathbf{…
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Gauge Theory
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The initial motivation for gauge invariance arose in classical electromagnetism through the work of Hermann von Helmholtz in the 1870s, long before its modern quantum mechanical formulation. Helmholtz sought a description of electrodynamics where the physics was independent of the choice of scalar potential ($\phi$) and vector potential ($\mathbf{…