id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_4q3grgxsoragbmqku4zr6cnvcy Steven Weinstein Gravity and Gauge Theory 1999 10 .pdf application/pdf 4036 358 66 General relativity is invariant under transformations of the diffeomorphism group. because in quantum theory, the generators of gauge transformations are emphatically not treated U(1) gauge theory, the Þbers are the group U(1), and each point on a Þber corresponds to a different Gauge-invariance is realized because, although the connection changes under gauge transformations, the physical quantities, which are represented by the curvature Fαβ, do not. which the physics (here encoded in the curvature Fαβ) is invariant under local U(1) gauge transformations. the connection (the gauge Þeld) at each point, changes that nonetheless leave the physics at the Thus, the diffeomorphisms comprise the gauge freedom of any theory formulated in terms of tensor Þelds on a spacetime manifold. of the Maxwell tensor at a spacetime point x to be observables (physical predictions of the theory) 13See Rovelli (1995) for an attempt at constructing a diffeomorphism-invariant quantum Þeld theory. ./cache/work_4q3grgxsoragbmqku4zr6cnvcy.pdf ./txt/work_4q3grgxsoragbmqku4zr6cnvcy.txt