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It is shown that in a certain sense Einstein gravity may be considered as the limit of a Yang-Hills type gauge theory with the anti-de-Sitter group as gauge group. Simple supergravity in four dimensions may then be constructed in a straightforward way as a supersymmetric extension of ordinary gravity.
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Hirshfeld, A.C. (1988). Supergravity as a Gauge Theory. In: Debrus, J., Hirshfeld, A.C. (eds) The Fundamental Interaction. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9522-9_9
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