- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- Preface
-
1 Introduction -
2 Einstein’s First Trip to America -
3 Structure and Contents of the Meaning of Relativity -
1 Physics and Geometry -
2 The Principles of General Relativity -
3 The First Solutions and the Challenge of Their Interpretation -
4 Einstein and the Astronomers -
5 The Genesis of Relativistic Cosmology -
6 The Controversy over Gravitational Waves -
7 Philosophical Debates on General Relativity -
8 The Quest for a Unified Field Theory -
9 Early Monographs on Relativity -
10 Beyond the Formative Years - Space and Time in Pre-relativity Physics
- The Theory of Special Relativity
- The General Theory of Relativity
- The General Theory of Relativity (Continued)
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Appendix For the Second Edition -
Appendix II Generalization of Gravitation Theory -
Appendix II Relativistic Theory of the Non-symmetric Field -
1 Introductory Remarks -
2 Einstein’s Lectures - Biographical Notes
- Index
Relativistic Theory of the Non-symmetric Field
Relativistic Theory of the Non-symmetric Field
- Chapter:
- (p.326) Appendix II Relativistic Theory of the Non-symmetric Field
- Source:
- The Formative Years of Relativity
- Author(s):
Hanoch Gutfreund
Jürgen Renn
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
This chapter attempts to find a measure for the “strength” of a system of field equations, which is determined by the amount of free data consistent with the system. It introduces the infinitesimal displacement field as a necessary remedy in general relativistic theory, as one can no longer form new tensors from a given tensor by simple differentiation and that in such a theory there are much fewer invariant formations. The infinitesimal displacement field replaces the inertial system inasmuch as it makes it possible to compare vectors at infinitesimally close points. After introducing these concepts, the chapter presents a discussion on relativistic field theory.
Keywords: relativistic theory, relativistic field theory, field equations, infinitesimal displacement field, general relativistic theory, non-symmetric field, inertial systems
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- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- Preface
-
1 Introduction -
2 Einstein’s First Trip to America -
3 Structure and Contents of the Meaning of Relativity -
1 Physics and Geometry -
2 The Principles of General Relativity -
3 The First Solutions and the Challenge of Their Interpretation -
4 Einstein and the Astronomers -
5 The Genesis of Relativistic Cosmology -
6 The Controversy over Gravitational Waves -
7 Philosophical Debates on General Relativity -
8 The Quest for a Unified Field Theory -
9 Early Monographs on Relativity -
10 Beyond the Formative Years - Space and Time in Pre-relativity Physics
- The Theory of Special Relativity
- The General Theory of Relativity
- The General Theory of Relativity (Continued)
-
Appendix For the Second Edition -
Appendix II Generalization of Gravitation Theory -
Appendix II Relativistic Theory of the Non-symmetric Field -
1 Introductory Remarks -
2 Einstein’s Lectures - Biographical Notes
- Index
