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It is shown that the Einstein and Yang-Mills equations arise from the conditions for the space-time to be a submanifold of a pseudo-Euclidean space with dimension greater than 5. Some possible applications to cosmology, spin-2 fields, and geometrodynamics are discussed.
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Monte, E.M., Maia, M.D. Geometry of the Einstein and Yang-Mills equations. Int J Theor Phys 36, 2827–2837 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02435711
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