Translation of Einstein's Attempt of a Unified Field Theory with Teleparallelism

TL;DR

This paper provides the first English translation of Einstein's original works on teleparallelism, an attempt at a unified field theory of gravitation and electromagnetism, including key papers from 1925 to 1930.

Contribution

It offers a comprehensive translation and contextualization of Einstein's early teleparallelism papers, making them accessible for modern researchers.

Findings

Introduces the concept of teleparallelism as a unified field theory

Includes Einstein's key reports from 1925 to 1930

Provides detailed tensor analysis for better understanding

Abstract

We present the first English translation of Einstein's original papers related to the teleparallel ('absolute parallelism', 'distant parallelism' and the German 'Fernparallelismus' are synonyms) attempt of an unified field theory of gravitation and electromagnetism. Our collection contains the summarizing paper in Math. Annal. 102 (1930) pp. 685-697 and 2 reports published in 'Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften' on June 7th, 1928 (pp. 217-221), June 14th, 1928 (pp. 224-227) and a precursor report (July 9th, 1925 pp. 414-419). To ease understanding, literature on tensor analysis is quoted in the footnotes.