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arxiv 2009.13508 v1 pith:C65TYHYF submitted 2020-09-28 gr-qc hep-th

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We summarize our proof that the "Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Gravity in Four-Dimensional Spacetime" introduced in Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 081301 (2020) does not have consistent field equations, as such the theory does not exist. The proof is given in both the metric and the first order formalisms.

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