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Coupled Einstein-matter systems of various spins are shown to possess no static non-singular solutions. In particular, this is demonstrated for spin 1/2 with or without torsion by iterating the Dirac operator, and partial results are given for supergravity.
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The second-order Rarita-Schwinger equation has also been derived by S. Christensen and M. Duff and by S. Hawking and C. Pope (to be published).
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Deser, S. (1981). Exclusion of Static Solutions in Gravity-Matter Coupling. In: Tirapegui, E. (eds) Field Theory, Quantization and Statistical Physics. Mathematical Physics and Applied Mathematics, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8368-7_4
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