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Birkhoff for Lovelock Redux

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2010-11-05 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We show succinctly that all metric theories with second order field equations obey Birkhoff's theorem: their spherically symmetric solutions are static.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0506014,
  title  = {Birkhoff for Lovelock Redux},
  author = {S. Deser and J. Franklin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0506014},
  year   = {2010}
}

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