  Following on our recent analysis of the energy momentum tensor (EMT) of light
nuclei in the impulse approximation, we evaluate the leading exchange
corrections also upto momenta of the order of the nucleon mass. The exchange
contributions to the EMT, are composed of the pair interaction, plus the
seagull and the pion exchange interactions, modulo the recoil correction. The
exchange contributions are shown to satisfy the current conservation
requirement. These contributions are small compared to those from the impulse
approximation for most of the deuteron gravitational form factors (GFFs), for
momenta smaller than half of the nucleon mass. For larger momenta, the exchange
contributions are significant for the deuteron A- and D-GFFs. We suggest that
the pion GFFs can be extracted from the exchange contributions of select
deuteron GFFs.
