Deser, S. (2017) Higher curvature gravities, unlike GR, cannot be bootstrapped from their (usual) linearizations. General Relativity and Gravitation, 49 (12). Art. No. 149. ISSN 0001-7701. doi:10.1007/s10714-017-2308-6. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20170602-112149514
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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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Alternate Title: | All higher curvature gravities can be bootstrapped from their linearizations | ||||||||||||
Additional Information: | © 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. | ||||||||||||
Group: | Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics | ||||||||||||
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Subject Keywords: | Analytical GR; Gravitational models; Higher order gravity Gravitational self-interaction | ||||||||||||
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Issue or Number: | 12 | ||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1007/s10714-017-2308-6 | ||||||||||||
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Persistent URL: | https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20170602-112149514 | ||||||||||||
Official Citation: | Deser, S. Gen Relativ Gravit (2017) 49: 149. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-017-2308-6 | ||||||||||||
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Deposited By: | Joy Painter | ||||||||||||
Deposited On: | 02 Jun 2017 18:26 | ||||||||||||
Last Modified: | 15 Nov 2021 17:35 |
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