Ceci n'est pas un gluon
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| author | Bhalla-Ladd, India March, Eleanor Weatherall, James Owen |
| author_facet | Bhalla-Ladd, India March, Eleanor Weatherall, James Owen |
| contents | We discuss and then resolve a tension between how physicists treat gauge bosons and the celebrated "Wu-Yang dictionary", which identifies particle physics terminology with that of principal bundles and principal connections. We show how this tension leads to an interpretative choice that is not widely discussed in the physics literature. We then show how the same considerations present a dilemma for a recent "particle-first" approach to Yang-Mills theory due to Henrique Gomes. Either the particle-first approach has surplus structure as compared to principal-bundle-based approaches, or gauge bosons are not sections of vector bundles. |
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| spellingShingle | Ceci n'est pas un gluon Bhalla-Ladd, India March, Eleanor Weatherall, James Owen History and Philosophy of Physics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology We discuss and then resolve a tension between how physicists treat gauge bosons and the celebrated "Wu-Yang dictionary", which identifies particle physics terminology with that of principal bundles and principal connections. We show how this tension leads to an interpretative choice that is not widely discussed in the physics literature. We then show how the same considerations present a dilemma for a recent "particle-first" approach to Yang-Mills theory due to Henrique Gomes. Either the particle-first approach has surplus structure as compared to principal-bundle-based approaches, or gauge bosons are not sections of vector bundles. |
| title | Ceci n'est pas un gluon |
| topic | History and Philosophy of Physics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19518 |