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arxiv: 1408.4434 · v2 · pith:NWO2CPA5new · submitted 2014-08-19 · ✦ hep-th · gr-qc

Yang-Mills origin of gravitational symmetries

classification ✦ hep-th gr-qc
keywords yang-millsinvariancelocalsymmetriesgaugegravitationaloff-shellapproximation
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By regarding gravity as the convolution of left and right Yang-Mills theories together with a spectator scalar field in the bi-adjoint representation, we derive in linearised approximation the gravitational symmetries of general covariance, p-form gauge invariance, local Lorentz invariance and local supersymmetry from the flat space Yang-Mills symmetries of local gauge invariance and global super-Poincar\'e. As a concrete example we focus on the new-minimal (12+12) off-shell version of simple four-dimensional supergravity obtained by tensoring the off-shell Yang-Mills multiplets (4+4,N_L =1)and(3+0,N_R =0).

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