Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 The Noether Theorems in Context
- 2 Felix Klein and Emmy Noether on Invariant Theory and Variational Principles
- 3 Moscow, Oxford, or Princeton: Emmy Noether’s Move from Göttingen (1933)
- 4 Getting to the Bottom of Noether’s Theorem
- 5 BV Quantisation in Perturbative Algebraic QFT: Fundamental Concepts and Perspectives
- 6 Divergence Invariant Variational Problems
- 7 Do Symmetries ‘Explain’ Conservation Laws? The Modern Converse Noether Theorem vs Pragmatism
- 8 Noether’s First Theorem and the Energy-Momentum Tensor Ambiguity Problem
- 9 Noether’s Theorems and Energy in General Relativity
- 10 Geometric Objects and Perspectivalism
- 11 Substantive General Covariance and the Einstein–Klein Dispute: A Noetherian Approach
- 12 Noether Charges, Gauge-Invariance, and Non-Separability
- 13 Observability, Redundancy, and Modality for Dynamical Symmetry Transformations
- 14 The Gauge Argument: A Noether Reason
- Index
1 - The Noether Theorems in Context
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2022
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 The Noether Theorems in Context
- 2 Felix Klein and Emmy Noether on Invariant Theory and Variational Principles
- 3 Moscow, Oxford, or Princeton: Emmy Noether’s Move from Göttingen (1933)
- 4 Getting to the Bottom of Noether’s Theorem
- 5 BV Quantisation in Perturbative Algebraic QFT: Fundamental Concepts and Perspectives
- 6 Divergence Invariant Variational Problems
- 7 Do Symmetries ‘Explain’ Conservation Laws? The Modern Converse Noether Theorem vs Pragmatism
- 8 Noether’s First Theorem and the Energy-Momentum Tensor Ambiguity Problem
- 9 Noether’s Theorems and Energy in General Relativity
- 10 Geometric Objects and Perspectivalism
- 11 Substantive General Covariance and the Einstein–Klein Dispute: A Noetherian Approach
- 12 Noether Charges, Gauge-Invariance, and Non-Separability
- 13 Observability, Redundancy, and Modality for Dynamical Symmetry Transformations
- 14 The Gauge Argument: A Noether Reason
- Index
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This chapter sketches the contents of Noether’s 1918 article, ‘Invariante Variationsprobleme’, as it may be seen against the background of the work of her predecessors and in the context of the debate on the conservation of energy that had arisen in the general theory of relativity.
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- The Philosophy and Physics of Noether's TheoremsA Centenary Volume, pp. 4 - 24Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022
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