The particle problem in classical gravity: a historical note on 1941

DOI10.1088/0143-0807/26/6/S03MaRDI QIDQ5719166zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Mariano Galvagno, G. Giribet

Publication date 17 January 2006

Published in European Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0411042

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of relativity and gravitational theory (83-03)

Abstract: This note is based on a relatively unknown paper of Albert Einstein published in 1941 in the Revista de la Universidad Nacional de Tucuman. That work can be regarded as the prequel of the one written in 1943 in collaboration with Wolfgang Pauli, where, along the same lines, a proof of the non-existence of certain non-singular solutions in Kaluza-Klein theory was given. More generally, disproving the existence of regular solutions in classical unified field theories became, specially after 1930, an important criterion leading Einstein's investigations on unified field theory. This is the context in which Einstein's paper of 1941 and its generalizations of 1943 and 1948 become important.

Recommendations

• Einstein and the Kaluza-Klein particle
• ``Golden oldie: The field of a single centre in Einstein's theory of gravitation, and the motion of a particle in that field
• Republication of: The mechanics of matter particles in general relativity. Translation from [Z. Phys. 67, 826--844 (1931)]
• On the history of unified field theories
• Editor's note: On the gravitational field of a mass point according to Einstein's theory by K. Schwarzschild

Cited in

(2)

• On the history of unified field theories. II. (ca. 1930 -- ca. 1965)
• Einstein and the Kaluza-Klein particle

This page was built for publication: The particle problem in classical gravity: a historical note on 1941

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q5719166)