Abstract
It is usually regarded that the space-time is curved by gravity, because it is determined by massless spin-2 fields called gravitons. In this Letter it is shown that one must also regard the fact that the gravity is the gauge field of the translation group.
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Mészáros, A. Why is the space-time curved by gravity?. Astrophys Space Sci 159, 157–159 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00640497
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