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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Time (in)dependence in general relativity
S. Deser, J. Franklin
We clarify the conditions for Birkhoff's theorem, that is, time-independence in general relativity. We work primarily at the linearized level where guidance from electrodynamics is…