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Gauges: Aharonov, Bohm, Yang, Healey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Stephen Leeds
Stephen Leeds*
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Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado-Boulder
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Abstract

I defend the interpretation of the Aharonov-Bohm effect originally advanced by Aharonov and Bohm, i.e., that it is caused by an interaction between the electron and the vector potential. The defense depends on taking the fiber bundle formulation of electrodynamics literally, or almost literally.

Type
Research Article
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 66 , Issue 4 , December 1999 , pp. 606 - 627
Copyright
Copyright © 1999 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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Footnotes

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Send requests for reprints to the author, Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0232; e-mail: [email protected].

‡

I would like to thank Harvey Brown, Richard Healey, and two anonymous referees for comments; and Arlan Ramsay and Ellen Zweibel for theorems.

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