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Gravity as a Gauge Theory of Translations

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2014-11-20 v1

Abstract

The Poincar\'e group can be interpreted as the group of isometries of a minkowskian space. This point of view suggests to consider the group of isometries of a given space as the suitable group to construct a gauge theory of gravity. We extend these ideas to the case of maximally symmetric spaces to reach a realistic theory including the presence of a cosmological constant. Introducing the concept of "minimal tetrads" we deduce Einstein gravity in the vacuum as a gauge theory of translations.

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@article{arxiv.0907.2871,
  title  = {Gravity as a Gauge Theory of Translations},
  author = {J. Martin-Martin and A. Tiemblo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.2871},
  year   = {2014}
}

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14 pages. LaTeX 2e