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Does gravity's weak-field cousin secretly behave like full GR?
L. A. S. Evangelista, A. F. Santos
May 26, 2026
Gravitoelectromagnetism — the analogy between weak gravitational fields and electromagnetism — is usually treated as a rough approximation, but this analysis shows its spin-2 propagator is mathematically identical to linearized GR's graviton propagator. The spin-1 sector vanishes entirely from physical processes, and the coupling to matter (fermions, photons) reproduces the energy-momentum tensor coupling of full linearized gravity. The result suggests the analogy runs deeper than textbook treatments imply.
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