[Trombone-l] Theoretical physics

[Stan Brager]

Thanks, Karl. This is heady stuff and appropriate to this list.

This, of course, does not apply to valve trombones. Trombones with triggers
represent a special class of scaling symmetries.

Stan
Stan Brager
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karl Hinterbichler" <khtbn at unm.edu>
To: "List Trombone" <TROMBONE-L at server5.samford.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 8:46 PM
Subject: [Trombone-l] Theoretical physics


> Looks like the trombone is the first instrument to make its way into
> theoretical physics.  Quite an honor?
>
> Excerpt from a paper http://www.arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/9707207
>
> "Analogous scaling symmetries exist in all supergravity theories.
> Because they
> allow one to scale magnitudes in and out, we shall call these scaling
> symmetries 'trombone'
> symmetries..."
>
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