Some remarks on the notions of general covariance and background independence Export

@misc{citeulike:561842, abstract = {In the first part of this paper I review some of the difficulties that seem to obstruct generally valid definitions of "general covariance" and/or "background independence" The second and more historical part deals with a rather strange argument that Einstein put forward in his 1913 "Entwurf paper" with M. Grossmann to discredit scalar theories of gravity in order to promote general covariance.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Giulini, Domenico}, citeulike-article-id = {561842}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0603087}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/0603087}, day = {22}, eprint = {gr-qc/0603087}, keywords = {gravity, qg, quantum}, month = {Mar}, posted-at = {2006-03-23 22:16:25}, priority = {4}, title = {Some remarks on the notions of general covariance and background independence}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0603087}, year = {2006} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:561842 L3 - citeulike-article-id:561842 N2 - In the first part of this paper I review some of the difficulties that seem to obstruct generally valid definitions of "general covariance" and/or "background independence" The second and more historical part deals with a rather strange argument that Einstein put forward in his 1913 "Entwurf paper" with M. Grossmann to discredit scalar theories of gravity in order to promote general covariance. TI - Some remarks on the notions of general covariance and background independence KW - gravity KW - qg KW - quantum AU - Giulini, Domenico PY - 2006/Mar/22/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0603087 ER -