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19992015
most citedSchwarzschild and Birkhoff a la Weyl

56 citations · 204 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

gr-qc2015

Bel-Robinson as stress-tensor gradients and their extensions to massive spin (0,1,2)

S. Deser, J. Franklin

We show that the Bel-Robinson (BR) tensor is - generically, as well as in its original GR setting - an autonomously conserved part of the, manifestly conserved, double gradient of…

gr-qc2011★ 21 cited

Canonical Analysis and Stability of Lanczos-Lovelock Gravity

S. Deser, J. Franklin

We perform a space-time analysis of the D>4 quadratic curvature Lanczos-Lovelock (LL) model, exhibiting its dependence on intrinsic/extrinsic curvatures, lapse and shifts. As expec…

gr-qc2011★ 1 cited

No Bel-Robinson Tensor for Quadratic Curvature Theories

S. Deser, J. Franklin

We attempt to generalize the familiar covariantly conserved Bel-Robinson tensor B_{mnab} ~ R R of GR and its recent topologically massive third derivative order counterpart B ~ RDR…

hep-th2010★ 8 cited

Is BTZ a separate superselection sector of CTMG?

S. Deser, J. Franklin

We exhibit exact solutions of (positive) matter coupled to cosmological TMG; they necessarily evolve to conical singularity/negative mass, rather than physical black hole, BTZ. By…

gr-qc2010★ 4 cited

De/re-constructing the Kerr Metric

S. Deser, J. Franklin

We derive the Kerr solution in a pedagogically transparent way, using physical symmetry and gauge arguments to reduce the candidate metric to just two unknowns. The resulting field…

gr-qc2009★ 13 cited

Circular Symmetry in Topologically Massive Gravity

S. Deser, J. Franklin

We re-derive, compactly, a TMG decoupling theorem: source-free TMG separates into its Einstein and Cotton sectors for spaces with a hypersurface-orthogonal Killing vector, here con…