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 Incoming links: Gravity and electricity by Hermann Weyl (1918)

Gauge theory Updated 2025-07-16
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The term and idea was first introduced initialized by Hermann Weyl when he was working on combining electromagnetism and general relativity to formulate Maxwell's equations in curved spacetime in 1918 and published as Gravity and electricity by Hermann Weyl (1918). Based on perception that U(1) symmetry implies charge conservation. The same idea was later adapted for quantum electrodynamics, a context in which is has even more impact.
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Session reports of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences at Berlin Updated 2025-07-16
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Publications by the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
Links to their publications: de.wikisource.org/wiki/Sitzungsberichte_der_K%C3%B6niglich_Preu%C3%9Fischen_Akademie_der_Wissenschaften_zu_Berlin
Notable papers:
  • Gravity and electricity by Hermann Weyl (1918)
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