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Structural Realism and the Problem of Inequivalent Representations in Quantum Field Theory
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This unpublished paper, written in 2005 in the PhD philosophy program at Notre Dame, argues that algebraic structural realism faces a potentially fatal difficulty raised by the existence of inequivalent representations in quantum field theory.Author's Profile
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