In Search of Local Degrees of Freedom in Quadratic Diff-invariant Lagrangians

Abstract

We show that local diff-invariant free field theories in four spacetime dimensions do not have local degrees of freedom.

23 pages (in DIN A4 format). Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D

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