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Some rekarks on the early history of the Albert Einstein Institute
Hubert Goenner
The genesis of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) after German re-unification as described here, shows that the history of the founding…
General relativity and the growth of a sub-discipline "gravitation" in the German speaking physics community
Hubert F. M. Goenner
We will follow the growth of gravitational theory in Germany from 1915 to the 1990s, i.e., relativistic theories of gravitation, mainly Einstein's, as a branch of physics in the se…
A Golden Age of General Relativity? Some remarks on the history of general relativity
Hubert F. M. Goenner
In papers on the history of general relativity and in personal remembrances of relativists, keywords like "renaissance" and "golden age" of general relativity have been used. We tr…
Klein's "Erlanger Programm": do traces of it exist in physical theories?
Hubert Goenner
A possible influence of Klein's Erlangen program on physical theories is investigated. While some connections are found, it is concluded that Lie's theory of transformation groups…
Weak Lie Symmetry and extended Lie algebra
Hubert F. M. Goenner
The concept of weak Lie motion (weak Lie symmetry) is introduced through (). Applications are given which exhibit a red…
Some remarks on the genesis of scalar-tensor theories
Hubert Goenner
Between 1941 and 1962, scalar-tensor theories of gravitation were suggested four times by different scientists in four different countries. The earliest originator, the Swiss mathe…
Palatini's cousin: A New Variational Principle
Hubert F M Goenner
A variational principle is suggested within Riemannnian geometry, in which an auxiliary metric and the Levi Civita connection are varied independently. The auxiliary metric plays t…
What kind of science is cosmology?
Hubert F. Goenner
In recent years, by theory and observation cosmology has advanced substantially. Parameters of the concordance or CDM cosmological model are given with unprecedented precision (…
On the History of Geometrization of Space-time: From Minkowski to Finsler Geometry
Hubert F M Goenner
The article is a tribute to Hermann Minkowski leading from his geometry of numbers to an attempt at using Finsler geometry for a break of Lorentz invariance.
Concerning the generalized Lorentz symmetry and the generalization of the Dirac equation
G. Yu. Bogoslovsky, H. F. Goenner
The work is devoted to the generalization of the Dirac equation for a flat locally anisotropic, i.e., Finslerian space-time. At first we reproduce the corresponding metric and a gr…
Gravitation in Flat Spacetime
H. Goenner, M. Leclerc
A special-relativistic scalar-vector theory of gravitation is presented which mimics an important class of solutions of Einstein's gravitational field equations. The theory include…
Finslerian spaces possessing local relativistic symmetry
G. Yu. Bogoslovsky, H. F. Goenner
It is shown that the problem of a possible violation of the Lorentz transformations at Lorentz factors indicated by the situation which has developed in the p…
On a Possibility of Phase Transitions in the Geometric Structure of Space-Time
G. Yu. Bogoslovsky, H. F. Goenner
It is shown that space-time may be not only in a state which is described by Riemann geometry but also in states which are described by Finsler geometry. Transitions between variou…
A class of anisotropic (Finsler-) space-time geometries
H. F. Goenner, G. Yu. Bogoslovsky
A particular Finsler-metric proposed in [1,2] and describing a geometry with a preferred null direction is characterized here as belonging to a subclass contained in a larger class…