Supergravity as a Yang-Mills theory

TL;DR

This paper introduces supergravity theories, explaining their foundations and expressing their actions as squared curvature terms, providing a simplified perspective on these advanced theories.

Contribution

It presents a straightforward introduction to supergravity and formulates their actions as squares of curvatures, highlighting a novel representation.

Findings

Supergravity actions can be written as squares of curvature tensors

Provides a simplified conceptual framework for supergravity theories

Connects supergravity with Yang-Mills theory concepts

Abstract

We give a simple introduction to ordinary and conformal supergravity, and write their actions as squares of curvatures.