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The foundations of Teleparallel Gravity, a gauge theory for the translations group, are presented. The geometrical setting is described, the translational gauge potential introduced, and the notion of gauge transformations explained. The translational coupling prescription is discussed, and the consequences for the spacetime metric examined. The field strength of the theory is shown to be the torsion tensor.
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Aldrovandi, R., Pereira, J.G. (2013). Fundamentals of Teleparallel Gravity. In: Teleparallel Gravity. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 173. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5143-9_4
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