{
  "id": "1407.5073",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2014-07-18T18:10:59.000Z",
  "updated": "2014-07-18T18:10:59.000Z",
  "title": "Deflating the Aharonov-Bohm Effect",
  "authors": [
    "David Wallace"
  ],
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "I argue that the metaphysical import of the Aharonov-Bohm effect has been overstated: correctly understood, it does not require either rejection of gauge invariance or any novel form of nonlocality. The conclusion that it does require one or the other follows from a failure to keep track, in the analysis, of the complex scalar field to which the magnetic vector potential is coupled. Once this is recognised, the way is clear to a local account of the ontology of electrodynamics (or at least, to an account no more nonlocal than quantum theory in general requires); I sketch a possible such account.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2014-07-18T18:10:59.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "aharonov-bohm effect",
      "complex scalar field",
      "magnetic vector potential",
      "local account",
      "quantum theory"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 1306956,
      "adsabs": "2014arXiv1407.5073W"
    }
  }
}