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S Deser1, R P Woodard

  • 1California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, and Department of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, USA. deser@brandeis.edu

Physical Review Letters
|October 13, 2007
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