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The Anthropic (and Mis-) Principle revisited, Steven Weinberg in Memoriam
S. Deser
I review the role and meaning of the Anthropic Principle, particularly in its relevance to particle physics.
A note on matter covariantization for gravity coupling
S. Deser
Covariantization is of course required for initially flat space matter to couple consistently to GR; here I show in detail for concrete systems how it follows in the same physical…
Truth, Beauty and Supergravity
S. Deser
I use Supergravity as a test case to study the role and uses of elegance/simplicity in formulating and evaluating physical models, whose sole criterion is of course truth: an obser…
Higher curvature gravities, unlike GR, cannot be bootstrapped from their (usual) linearizations
S. Deser
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, ex…
One-loop gravity divergences in D>4 cannot all be removed
S. Deser
Unlike the one-loop QG divergences in D=4, which can all be transformed away, those in arbitrary higher (even) dimension cannot.
Problems of Massive Gravities
S. Deser, K. Izumi, Y. C. Ong +1
The method of characteristics is a key tool for studying consistency of equations of motion; it allows issues such as predictability, maximal propagation speed, superluminality, un…