Einstein’s Gravitational Field Equations and the Bianchi Identities

David E. Rowe
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David E. Rowe: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Institut für Mathematik

Chapter 22 in A Richer Picture of Mathematics, 2018, pp 263-271 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In his highly acclaimed biography of Einstein, Abraham Pais gave a fairly detailed analysis of the many difficulties his hero had to overcome in November 1915 before he finally arrived at generally covariant equations for gravitation (Pais 1982, 250–261).

Keywords: Contracted Bianchi Identities; Emmy Noether; Vermeil; Energy-momentum Conservation; Riemann-Christoffel Tensor (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-67819-1_22

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