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Fibre bundles and supersymmetries

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By extending the frame bundle of a manifold admitting a spin structure to a principal fibre bundle with group the super-Poincaré group we are able to derive the supergravity Lagrangian and its invariances under supersymmetry and other transformations in a global form.

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Yates, R.G. Fibre bundles and supersymmetries. Commun.Math. Phys. 76, 255–268 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02193556

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