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The subject of this talk is concerned with the nature of space-time, and of its elements, the world points. Classical field theory takes it for granted that space-time is a manifold, with appropriate conditions of differentiability. The same assumption holds for Poinearé-invariant quantum field theories. No matter what further structures are imposed on the space-time manifold, it has been usually taken for granted that each world point has an invariant identity, which is preserved under all symmetry transformations of a given theory.
Work supported by the National Science Foundation (U.S.A.) under Grant No. MPS74-15246.
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Bergmann, P.G. (1980). The Fading World Point. In: Bergmann, P.G., De Sabbata, V. (eds) Cosmology and Gravitation. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 58. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3123-0_9
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