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Higher curvature gravities, unlike GR, cannot be bootstrapped from their (usual) linearizations

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Abstract

We show that higher curvature order gravities, in particular the propagating quadratic curvature models, cannot be derived by self-coupling from their linear, flat space, forms, except through an unphysical version of linearization; only GR can. Separately, we comment on an early version of the self-coupling bootstrap.

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© 2017 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. Received: 23 May 2017; Accepted: 15 October 2017; First Online: 07 November 2017. This work was supported by Grants NSF PHY-1266107 and DOE#desc0011632. I thank T. Ortin for correspondence, J. Franklin for excellent translation, and Chris Fewster for useful suggestions.

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All higher curvature gravities can be bootstrapped from their linearizations

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77919
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NSF
PHY-1266107
Department of Energy (DOE)
DE-SC0011632

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2017-06-02
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2021-11-15
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Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics
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