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general relativity and Gravitation, VoL 14, No. 3, 1982. Variational formulation of general relativity from 1915 to 1925 "Palatini's Method" Discovered by einstein in 1925. M. F E R R A R I S and M. F R A N C A V I G L I A. Istituto di Fisica Matematiea dell'Universit~, via C. Alberto, l O- Torino, Italy C. REINA. Istituto di Fisiea dell'Universit~, via Celoria 16-Milano, Italy Received January 24, 1981, revised version received June 24, 1981. Abstract Among the three basic Variational approaches to general relativity , the metric-affine varia- tional principle, according to which the metric and the affine connection are varied inde- pendently, is commonly known as the "Palatini method." In this paper we revisit the history of the "golden age" of general relativity , through a discussion of the papers involving a Variational formulation of the field problem.
248 FERRARIS ET AL. self-consistent, covariant, and satisfactory formulation, thanks to the efforts of Einstein, Hilbert, and Lorentz.
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