Gravity from self-interaction redux

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Gravity from self-interaction redux

S.Deser

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Submitted 15 Oct 2009

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The authors' main claim I correct some recent misunderstandings about, and amplify some details of, an old explicit non-geometrical derivation of GR.

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I correct some recent misunderstandings about, and amplify some details of, an old explicit non-geometrical derivation of GR.

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I correct some recent misunderstandings about, and amplify some details of, an old explicit non-geometrical derivation of GR.

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Let us use the same schematic notation as in [ref] , in which the Fierz-Pauli equations [ref] are written as

Taming higher-derivative interactions and bootstrapping gravity with soft theorems · On the non-uniqueness in Deser's derivation · 0.81

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The approach, based on Deser's conjecture [ref] , consists of retrieving the full Einstein's theory including gravitational self-coupling terms in the Fierz-Pauli action.[This idea is indeed older, see e.g. Ref. [ref] .]

Orbits in bootstrapped Newtonian gravity · Introduction · 0.84
It was also shown long ago that General Relativity is in turn the simplest among the (diffeomorphism invariant) consistent completions of the linear Newtonian gravity with the graviton self-coupling [ref] .

Bootstrapping Newton Gravity · Introduction · 0.93
The most well-known ones proposed to use Ward–Takahashi identities [ref] and to bootstrap gravity [ref] .

FeynGrav and Recent Progress in Computational Perturbative Quantum Gravity · Introduction · 0.85

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