Spacetime metrics from gauge potentials (Q2412294)

Summary: I present an approach to gravity in which the spacetime metric is constructed from a non-Abelian gauge potential with values in the Lie algebra of the group \(U(2)\) (or the Lie algebra of quaternions). If the curvature of this potential vanishes, the metric reduces to a canonical curved background form reminiscent of the Friedmann \(S^3\) cosmological metric.