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Published August 10, 2019 | Published + Submitted
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Noether converse: All identically conserved geometric tensors are metric variations of an action in (at least) D = 2

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Abstract

The title's century-old conjecture is established for D = 2 and is likely for all D.

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© 2019 The Author. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Funded by SCOAP3. Received 7 June 2019, Revised 24 June 2019, Accepted 25 June 2019, Available online 27 June 2019. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics, under Award Number de-sc0011632. I thank Y. Pang for many informative discussions and for saving me from egregious errors (if not from present ones) on this long journey; A. Waldron's input was also of great help, as was J. Franklin's tex skill.

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