General Relativity from conservation laws without the principle of least action

Abstract

We prove that the field equations of general relativity and other metric theories can be derived from the conservation of energy-momentum without using the assumption of least action principle. We show a new procedure for perturbative derivation of symmetric pseudo-energy momentum for the gravity field.

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