No, though decay makes them feel interchangeable. They differ concretely: sizeof on a true array gives the total storage; on a pointer it gives the pointer's own size. &arr has type "pointer to array" (int (*)[N]) whereas &p is int **. An array name is not an lvalue you can assign to (arr = something is illegal), but a pointer variable is reassignable. And an array contains its elements as storage, while a pointer merely holds an address that may point anywhere. The confusion arises because an array decays to a pointer in most expression contexts, but in declarations, sizeof, and &, the distinction is sharp and observable.
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Pointer Arithmetic & Arrays
Why arr[i] is literally *(arr + i), how pointer math scales by type size, and the array-to-pointer decay that loses your size the moment you call a function.