All higher curvature gravities can be bootstrapped from their linearizations
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We show that the full covariant versions of higher curvature order gravities, like that of GR itself, can be derived by self-coupling from their linear, flat space, versions. Separately, we comment on the initial version of the bootstrap.
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تاریخ انتشار 2017