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Published August 21, 2005 | Submitted
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Birkhoff for Lovelock redux

Abstract

We show succinctly that all metric theories with second order field equations obey Birkhoff's theorem: their spherically symmetric solutions are static.

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© 2005 IOP Publishing Ltd. Received 2 June 2005. Published 26 July 2005. We thank B Tekin for a discussion. This work was supported by NSF grant PHY-04-01667.

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