title: Yang-Mills origin of gravitational symmetries.
abstract: By regarding gravity as the convolution of left and right Yang-Mills theories together with a spectator scalar field in the biadjoint representation, we derive in linearized approximation, the gravitational symmetries of general covariance, p-form gauge invariance, local Lorentz invariance, and local supersymmetry from the flat space Yang-Mills symmetries of local gauge invariance and global super-Poincaré symmetry. As a concrete example, we focus on the new minimal (12+12) off shell version of simple four-dimensional supergravity obtained by tensoring the off shell Yang-Mills multiplets (4+4, N_{L}=1) and (3+0, N_{R}=0).
authors.affiliation: Theoretical Physics, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Anastasiou
authors.affiliation: Theoretical Physics, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Borsten
authors.affiliation: Theoretical Physics, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Duff
authors.affiliation: Theoretical Physics, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: L J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Hughes
authors.affiliation: Theoretical Physics, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nagy