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Einstein: Distant parallelism and electromagnetism

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Einstein's approach to unified field theories based on the geometry of distant parallelism is discussed. The simplest theory of this type, describing gravitation and electromagnetism, is investigated. It is found that there is a charge-current density vector associated with the geometry. However, in the static spherically symmetric case no singularity-free solutions for this vector exist.

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  1. The School of Education of the Kibbutz Movement, Oranim, University of Haifa, Tivon, Israel

    Mark Israelit

  2. Department of Physics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

    Nathan Rosen

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Israelit, M., Rosen, N. Einstein: Distant parallelism and electromagnetism. Found Phys 15, 365–377 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00737324

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