General relativity from causality

DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2017)119zbMath1382.83012arXiv1702.07720OpenAlexW3105596994MaRDI QIDQ1705991

Mark P. Hertzberg, McCullen Sandora

Publication date: 19 March 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.07720

zbMATH Keywords

classical theories of gravityspace-time symmetrieseffective field theorieshigher derivative interactionspin 2 particle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) Continuous lattices and posets, applications (06B35)

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