Einstein equations and Hilbert action: what is missing on page 8 of the proofs for Hilbert's first communication on the foundations of physics?

DOI10.1007/s00407-005-0100-6zbMath1080.01007OpenAlexW3023077563WikidataQ125767160 ScholiaQ125767160MaRDI QIDQ2577195

Tilman Sauer

Publication date: 19 December 2005

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-005-0100-6

zbMATH Keywords

action integralRicci tensorcoordinate restrictionsEinstein's equivalence hypothesisHilbert's variational principleRiemann's curvature scalar

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Historiography (01A85)

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