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General relativity can be unambiguously formulated with Lorentz, de Sitter and anti-de Sitter tangent groups, which determine the fermionic representations. We show that besides of the Lorentz group only anti-de Sitter tangent group is consistent with all physical requirements.
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Chamseddine, A.H., Mukhanov, V. Who ordered the anti-de Sitter tangent group?. J. High Energ. Phys. 2013, 95 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2013)095
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