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IJMMS 2003:12, 777–787 PII. S0161171203012766 © Hindawi Publishing Corp. SEVEN-DIMENSIONAL CONSIDERATIONS OF EINSTEIN’S CONNECTION. I. THE RECURRENCE RELATIONS OF THE FIRST KIND IN n-g-UFT MI AE KIM, KEUM SOOK SO, CHUNG HYUN CHO, and KYUNG TAE CHUNG Received 12 April 2001 and in revised form 27 September 2001 Einstein’s connection in a generalized Riemannian manifold Xn has been investi- gated by many authors for lower-dimensional cases n = 2,..., 6. In a series of pa- pers, we obtain a surveyable tensorial representation of 7-dimensional Einstein’s connection in terms of unified field tensor, with main emphasis on the derivation of powerful and useful recurrence relations which hold in X7. In this paper, we give a brief survey of Einstein’s unified field theory and derive the recurrence rela- tions of the first kind which hold in a general Xn . All considerations in this paper are restricted to the first and second classes only since the case of the third class, the simplest case, was already studied by many authors. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 83E50, 83C05, 58A05. 1. Introduction. In Appendix II to his last book, Einstein [ 16] proposed a new unified field theory that would include both gravitation and electromag- netism. Although the intent of this theory is physical, its exposition is mainly geometrical. Characterizing Einstein’s unified field theory as a set of geomet- rical postulates in the space time X4 , Hlavatý [17] gave its mathematical foun- dation for the first time. Since then Hlavatý and number of mathematicians contributed for the development of this theory and obtained many geometri- cal consequences of these postulates. Generalizing X4 to n-dimensional generalized Riemannian manifold Xn , n- dimensional generalization of