Einsteins physical strategy, energy conservation, symmetries, and stability: ``But Grossmann \& I believed that the conservation laws were not satisfied

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2016.04.003zbMath1337.83005arXiv1604.03038OpenAlexW3098324637MaRDI QIDQ291138

J. Brian Pitts

Publication date: 6 June 2016

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.03038

zbMATH Keywords

conservation lawsenergy-momentum tensorgeneral relativityMax BornNoether's theoremsuniformity of nature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Symmetries and conservation laws, reverse symmetries, invariant manifolds and their bifurcations, reduction for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H33) History of relativity and gravitational theory (83-03) Physics (00A79)

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