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On the initial-value problem of linearized Einstein's equations

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Acta Physica Hungarica

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It is shown that in the absence of sourceless weak gravitational waves the linearized theory of gravitation is necessarily Lorentz covariant.

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Mészáros, A. On the initial-value problem of linearized Einstein's equations. Acta Physica Hungarica 58, 255–258 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03155719

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