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The General Static Spherically Symmetric Solution of the "Weak" Unified Field Equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

J. R. Vanstone
J. R. Vanstone*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto and Summer Research Institute of the Canadian Mathematical Congress
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In 1947 Einstein and Strauss (2) proposed a unified field theory based on a four-dimensional manifold characterized by a nonsymmetric tensor gij and a non-symmetric connection , where

(1)

Using a variational principle in which gij and are independently varied, the above authors obtain the equivalent of the following field equations:

(2a)

(2b)

In these equations a comma denotes partial differentiation with respect to the co-ordinates of the manifold, Wij is the Ricci tensor formed from and the notation

for the symmetric and skew-symmetric parts of geometric objects Q is employed.

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 14 , 1962 , pp. 568 - 576
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1962

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