Published December 2017
| Submitted
Journal Article
Open
Higher curvature gravities, unlike GR, cannot be bootstrapped from their (usual) linearizations
- Creators
-
Deser, S.
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.
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.Attached Files
Submitted - 1705.08938.pdf
Files
1705.08938.pdf
Files
(67.1 kB)
| Name | Size | Download all |
|---|---|---|
|
md5:c8381266dab0047d781e2e547e5edb11
|
67.1 kB | Preview Download |
Additional details
- Alternative title
- All higher curvature gravities can be bootstrapped from their linearizations
- Eprint ID
- 77919
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20170602-112149514
- PHY-1266107
- NSF
- DE-SC0011632
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- Created
-
2017-06-02Created from EPrint's datestamp field
- Updated
-
2021-11-15Created from EPrint's last_modified field
- Caltech groups
- Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics
- Other Numbering System Name
- CALT-TH
- Other Numbering System Identifier
- 2017-025