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Higher spin excitations on curved backgrounds and cosmological supergravity
S. Deser, M. Henneaux
Some time ago, we showed that a weak (linear) massless spin 2 wave could only propagate on a Ricci-flat or Ricci-constant background: it must necessarily be a perturbation of Gener…
The ADM version of GR at Sixty: a brief account for historians
S. Deser
I review the meaning of General Relativity (GR), viewed as a dynamical field, rather than as geometry, as effected by the 1958-61 anti-geometrical work of ADM. This very brief non-…
Field redefinition's help in constructing non-abelian gauge theories
S. Deser, K. S. Stelle
We study, using the example of general covariance, to what extent a would-be non-abelian extension of free field abelian gauge theory can be helped by a field redefinition; answer…
Nonlocal Cosmology II --- Cosmic acceleration without fine tuning or dark energy
S. Deser, R. P. Woodard
We present an improved version of our original cosmological model to explain the current phase of cosmological acceleration without resorting to a cosmological constant or any othe…
Energy in Gravitation and Noether's Theorems
S. Deser
I exhibit the conflicting roles of Noether's two great theorems in defining conserved quantities, especially Energy in General Relativity and its extensions: It is the breaking of…
Non-Lagrangian Gauge Field Models are Physically Excluded
S. Deser
While non-action generated, but identically conserved,-abelian and non-gauge vectors exist, they are unsuitable for building alternate field equations because they have no stress-t…