Albert Einstein, Berlin
translated by A. Unzicker from
Math. Annal. 102 (1930), pp 685-697
In the present work I will describe a theory I have been working on for a year; it will be exposed in a manner that it can be understood comfortably by everyone who knows general relativity. The following version is necessary, because due to coherences and improvements found in the meantime reading the earlier work would be a useless loss of time. The topic is presented in a way that seems most advisable for a comfortable access. In particular, I learned to know through Mr. Weitzenböck and Mr. Cartan that the treatment of the continua we are talking about is not new. Mr. Cartan kindly wrote an essay about the history of the relevant mathematical tools in order to complete my paper; it is printed right after this paper in the same review. Also here I give my best thanks to Mr. Cartan for his valuable contribution. The most important and however new result of the present work is the finding of the most simple field laws that can be applied to a riemannian manifold with distant parallelism. I will discuss only briefly their physical meaning.