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1. • CommentRowNumber1.
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   Format: MarkdownItexstarting something <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/pre-metric+electromagnetism/1">v1</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/pre-metric+electromagnetism">current</a>

   starting something

   v1, current

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   Format: MarkdownItexHave added more references, such as to English translations (by Delphenich) of Kottler's original articles as well as to * [[Edmund T. Whittaker]]: pp. 192-196 of: *A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity* -- * Vol. 2: *The Modern Theories 1900-1926* (1953), reprinted by Humanities Press (1973) &lbrack;<a href="https://isidore.co/CalibreLibrary/Whittaker,%20Edmund%20Taylor/A%20History%20of%20the%20Theories%20of%20Aether%20and%20Electricity_%20The%20Modern%20Theories%201900-1926%20(4500)/A%20History%20of%20the%20Theories%20of%20Aether%20and%20El%20-%20Whittaker,%20Edmund%20Taylor.pdf">pdf</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_History_of_the_Theories_of_Aether_and_Electricity">Wikipedia entry</a>&rbrack; and * [[Friedrich W. Hehl]], [[Yakov Itin]], [[Yuri N. Obukhov]], *On Kottler's path: origin and evolution of the premetric program in gravity and in electrodynamics*, International Journal of Modern Physics D **25** 11 (2016) 1640016 &lbrack;[arXiv:1607.06159](https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.06159), [doi:10.1142/S0218271816400162](https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218271816400162)&rbrack; <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/pre-metric+electromagnetism/4">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/pre-metric+electromagnetism/4">v4</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/pre-metric+electromagnetism">current</a>

   Have added more references,

   such as to English translations (by Delphenich) of Kottler’s original articles

   as well as to

   • Edmund T. Whittaker: pp. 192-196 of: A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity – * Vol. 2: The Modern Theories 1900-1926 (1953), reprinted by Humanities Press (1973) [pdf, Wikipedia entry]

   and

   • Friedrich W. Hehl, Yakov Itin, Yuri N. Obukhov, On Kottler’s path: origin and evolution of the premetric program in gravity and in electrodynamics, International Journal of Modern Physics D 25 11 (2016) 1640016 [arXiv:1607.06159, doi:10.1142/S0218271816400162]

   diff, v4, current

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   Format: MarkdownItexfinally found the exact passage in Cartan's work: * [[Élie Cartan]], §80 in: *Sur les variétés à connexion affine, et la théorie de la relativité généralisée (première partie) (Suite)*, Annales scientifiques de l’É.N.S. 3e série, tome **41** (1924) 1-25 &lbrack;[numdam:ASENS_1924_3_41__1_0](http://www.numdam.org/item?id=ASENS_1924_3_41__1_0)&rbrack; <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/pre-metric+electromagnetism/8">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/pre-metric+electromagnetism/8">v8</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/pre-metric+electromagnetism">current</a>

   finally found the exact passage in Cartan’s work:

   • Élie Cartan, §80 in: Sur les variétés à connexion affine, et la théorie de la relativité généralisée (première partie) (Suite), Annales scientifiques de l’É.N.S. 3e série, tome 41 (1924) 1-25 [numdam:ASENS_1924_3_41__1_0]

   diff, v8, current

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   Format: MarkdownItexadding now references whose authors make the "pre-metric formulation" (though not under this name) for RR-fields manifest. This one is nicely to the point: * [[Karapet Mkrtchyan]], [[Fridrich Valach]], (6), (7) in: *Democratic actions for type II supergravities*, Phys.Rev.D **107** 6 (2023) 066027 &lbrack;[arXiv:2207.00626](https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00626), [doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.107.066027](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.107.066027)&rbrack; <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/pre-metric+electromagnetism/10">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/pre-metric+electromagnetism/10">v10</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/pre-metric+electromagnetism">current</a>

   adding now references whose authors make the “pre-metric formulation” (though not under this name) for RR-fields manifest.

   This one is nicely to the point:

   • Karapet Mkrtchyan, Fridrich Valach, (6), (7) in: Democratic actions for type II supergravities, Phys.Rev.D 107 6 (2023) 066027 [arXiv:2207.00626, doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.107.066027]

   diff, v10, current

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   Format: MarkdownItexIncidentally, I have compiled this material to go along with what is now Section 1.2 in "[[schreiber:Introduction to Hypothesis H|Introduction to Hypothesis H]]".

   Incidentally, I have compiled this material to go along with what is now Section 1.2 in “Introduction to Hypothesis H”.

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   Author: Urs
   Format: MarkdownItexadded pointer to: * [[Christian Becker]], [[Marco Benini]], [[Alexander Schenkel]], [[Richard Szabo]], Rem. 2.3 in: _Abelian duality on globally hyperbolic spacetimes_, Commun. Math. Phys. **349** (2017) 361-392 &lbrack;[arXiv:1511.00316](https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.00316), [doi:10.1007/s00220-016-2669-9](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-016-2669-9)&rbrack; <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/pre-metric+electromagnetism/13">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/pre-metric+electromagnetism/13">v13</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/pre-metric+electromagnetism">current</a>

   added pointer to:

   • Christian Becker, Marco Benini, Alexander Schenkel, Richard Szabo, Rem. 2.3 in: Abelian duality on globally hyperbolic spacetimes, Commun. Math. Phys. 349 (2017) 361-392 [arXiv:1511.00316, doi:10.1007/s00220-016-2669-9]

   diff, v13, current

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   Format: MarkdownItexadded pointer to: * [[Calin Lazaroiu]], [[Carlos S. Shahbazi]], around Def. 1.16 in: *The duality covariant geometry and DSZ quantization of abelian gauge theory*, Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics **26** (2022) 2213–2312 &lbrack;[arXiv:2101.07236](https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07236), [doi:10.4310/ATMP.2022.v26.n7.a5](https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/ATMP.2022.v26.n7.a5)&rbrack; * [[Calin Lazaroiu]], [[Carlos S. Shahbazi]], around (3) in: *The geometry and DSZ quantization of four-dimensional supergravity*, Letters in Mathematical Physics **113** 4 (2023) &lbrack;[arXiv:2101.07778](https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07778), [doi:10.1007/s11005-022-01626-y](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11005-022-01626-y)&rbrack; <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/pre-metric+electromagnetism/17">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/pre-metric+electromagnetism/17">v17</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/pre-metric+electromagnetism">current</a>

   added pointer to:

   • Calin Lazaroiu, Carlos S. Shahbazi, around Def. 1.16 in: The duality covariant geometry and DSZ quantization of abelian gauge theory, Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics 26 (2022) 2213–2312 [arXiv:2101.07236, doi:10.4310/ATMP.2022.v26.n7.a5]

   • Calin Lazaroiu, Carlos S. Shahbazi, around (3) in: The geometry and DSZ quantization of four-dimensional supergravity, Letters in Mathematical Physics 113 4 (2023) [arXiv:2101.07778, doi:10.1007/s11005-022-01626-y]

   diff, v17, current