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In this chapter we try to induce, in the most natural possible way, space-time structures from internal ones. This is done through the mathematical notion of soldering, and as an application example, we show how we constructed gravity starting with the gauge fields of the conformai group.
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Castagnino, M., Yastremiz, C. (1988). Gauge Theory of Conformal Group. In: Teitelboim, C. (eds) Quantum Mechanics of Fundamental Systems 1. Series of the Centro de Estudios Científicos de Santiago. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3728-5_8
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