Breaking in the 4-vectors: the four-dimensional movement in gravitation, 1905-1910

Scott Walter (1)

1 LHSP - Laboratoire d'Histoire des Sciences et de Philosophie - Archives Henri Poincaré

The paper presents a study of the emergence of a four-dimensional approach to relativistic physics, by comparing contributions by Henri Poincaré, Hermann Minkowski, and Arnold Sommerfeld in the period 1905-1910.

Mots clés: gravitation; relativity; history of physics; history of mathematics

Domaines: Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences

Scott Walter. Breaking in the 4-vectors: the four-dimensional movement in gravitation, 1905-1910. Renn, Jürgen and Schemmel, Matthias. The Genesis of General Relativity, Volume 3, 3, Springer, pp.193-252, 2007. ⟨halshs-00138006⟩