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  • Engelbert Schucking
  • Eugene J. Surowitz
چکیده

After a historical discussion of Einstein’s 1907 principle of equivalence, a homogeneous gravitational field in Minkowski spacetime is constructed. It is pointed out that the reference frames in gravitational theory can be understood as spaces with a flat connection and torsion defined through teleparallelism. This kind of torsion was introduced by Einstein in 1928. The concept of torsion is discussed through simple examples and some historical observations.

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تاریخ انتشار 2008