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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