Einstein and the Kaluza-Klein particle

DOI10.1016/S1355-2198(02)00017-5zbMATH Open1222.83015arXivgr-qc/0009087MaRDI QIDQ720481FDOQ720481

Jeroen van Dongen

Publication date: 15 October 2011

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

Abstract: In his search for a unified field theory that could undercut quantum mechanics, Einstein considered five dimensional classical Kaluza-Klein theory. He studied this theory most intensively during the years 1938-1943. One of his primary objectives was finding a non-singular particle solution. In the full theory this search got frustrated and in the x^5-independent theory Einstein, together with Pauli, argued it would be impossible to find these structures.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0009087

zbMATH Keywords

quantizationsolitonsEinsteinKaluza-Klein theoryunified field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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