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The symmetry and simplicity of the laws of physics and the Higgs boson — mentioned by orbifold

Wed, 29 Jan 2020 15:07:59 GMT

My long standing hypothesis on Medallion is that they figured out how to apply gauge theoretic techniques to financial markets. This fits with Simons work that he did before he founded the fund. The fact that gauge theory is applicable to for example currency trading is folk knowledge in the Havard, Princeton, IAS circles (here is for example the lecture notes of a popular lecture by Maldacena that uses currency trading as an example of a gauge theory https://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.6753.pdf). In currency trading example the curvature $F$ of the gauge connection $A$ vanishes precisely, when there…

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The symmetry and simplicity of the laws of physics and the Higgs boson — mentioned by bfirsh

Sat, 24 Nov 2018 08:40:53 GMT

If you're on a phone, here's an HTML version: https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1410.6753/

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The symmetry and simplicity of the laws of physics and the Higgs boson — HN submission

Sat, 24 Nov 2018 04:36:29 GMT

The symmetry and simplicity of the laws of physics and the Higgs boson (2015)

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The symmetry and simplicity of the laws of physics and the Higgs boson — mentioned by 21

Thu, 08 Feb 2018 23:19:26 GMT

Not a physicists either, These "non-physical redundancy" you are referring to can't be picked out totally at random. They do have some interdepencencies. My understanding is that at each point in space you can pick a DIFFERENT gauge transformation, but there are some constraints. And if you do a sort of integral through a path of these points, the sum of that thing represents EXACTLY the electo-magnetic field along that path. A very famous physicists made an economic analogy, using currency exchange rates between countries as gauge fixings: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.6753

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The symmetry and simplicity of the laws of physics and the Higgs boson — HN submission

Sat, 28 Mar 2015 07:15:10 GMT

The symmetry and simplicity of the laws of physics and the Higgs boson

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