Translation of Einstein's Attempt of a Unified Field Theory with Teleparallelism
Alexander Unzicker, Timothy Case

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.
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Taxonomy
TopicsCosmology and Gravitation Theories · Geophysics and Gravity Measurements · Relativity and Gravitational Theory
