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Gauge theory

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Gauge theory by Ciro Santilli 37  Updated 2025-05-26  +Created 1970-01-01
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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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