Local symmetry

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In physics, a local symmetry is a symmetry that holds on an open subset of points on a spacetime, as opposed to a global symmetry which holds at all points.

Most physical theories are described by Lagrangians which are invariant under certain transformations, where the transformations are an arbitrary function of each space-time point—they have local symmetries, or gauge symmetries

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