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Higher curvature gravities, unlike GR, cannot be bootstrapped from their (usual) linearizations
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.Attached Files
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- All higher curvature gravities can be bootstrapped from their linearizations
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- 77919
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20170602-112149514
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- https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.08938 (URL)
Funding
- NSF
- PHY-1266107
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- DE-SC0011632
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2017-06-02Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-15Created from EPrint's last_modified field
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- Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics
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- Other Numbering System Identifier
- 2017-025