Sentence examples for surplus structure from inspiring English sources

It was important to Everett to explain why one would not ordinarily notice the surplus structure of pure wave mechanics.

The surplus structure, then, is a consequence of the representation chosen and has no further metaphysical significance.

The hole argument provides two grounds that can be used: verifiability changes in the candidate surplus structure make no difference to what can be verified in observation; determinism the laws of the theory are unable to fix the candidate surplus structure.

So while pure wave mechanics explains why one would not typically observe other branches, it also predicts that other branches are in principle observable, and hence do not represent surplus structure.

Furthermore, we face the question of how to understand the role of the non-gauge-invariant quantities appearing in the theory, and the problem of how to interpret what M. Redhead calls "surplus structure" (see Redhead, 2003).

Furthermore, even if we accept the methodological principle of 'the less surplus structure the better', it is not clear that QFT understood in terms of non-individual 'quanta' offers any significant advantage in this respect.

All this can be taken to show that a mathematically rich theory, with surplus structures, can be very valuable in the construction of theories.

It is case (1) that is particularly important here: Everett considered the surplus experiential structure represented in the various branches of the absolute state to be explanatorily harmless.

We learn from it that the identification of surplus mathematical structure cannot be achieved by any a priori or purely mathematical rule.

The hole argument depends upon a gauge freedom in general relativity; that is, the presence of surplus mathematical structure in general relativity that has no correlate in physical reality.

Faced with the need to make savings of £90m over the next three years Liverpool city council has decided to sell the Grade II*-listed Municipal Buildings, having deemed the 150-year-old structure "surplus to requirements".