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    It is not the case that Weyl's turn toward quantum mechanics in the 1920s redeployed, rather than rejected, the gauge-theoretic structure he developed under the classical field program.

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    • 1.Quantum mechanics's probabilistic interpretation fundamentally differs from classical field theory's deterministic gauge structure—redeployment overstates continuity.
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    • 2.The shift from scale gauge to phase gauge (U(1)) represents conceptual discontinuity, not mere redeployment of earlier gauge-theoretic commitments.
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    • 3.Historical evidence suggests Weyl abandoned his original unified field goals, indicating rejection rather than redeployment of the classical program.
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    • 1.Weyl's 1918 gauge invariance principle (scale transformations) directly informed his 1929 U(1) quantum electrodynamics approach structurally.
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    • 2.The mathematical formalism of local gauge transformations remained continuous between classical and quantum contexts without fundamental revision.
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    • 3.Weyl explicitly stated his quantum work extended gauge-theoretic insights rather than abandoning the classical program's core conceptual architecture.
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