Comment on "Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Gravity in Four-Dimensional Spacetime"

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Gürses M., Sisman T. C., Tekin B.

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, cilt.125, 2020 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Editöre Mektup
  • Cilt numarası: 125
  • Basım Tarihi: 2020
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1103/physrevlett.125.149001
  • Dergi Adı: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, Aerospace Database, Chemical Abstracts Core, Compendex, EMBASE, INSPEC, MEDLINE, zbMATH, DIALNET
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

We summarize our proof that the "Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Gravity in Four-Dimensional Spacetime" introduced in Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 081301 (2020) does not have consistent field equations, as such the theory does not exist. The proof is given in both the metric and the first order formalisms.