Fields as Bodies: a unified presentation of spacetime and internal gauge symmetry

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Using the parametrised representation of field theory I demonstrate that in both local and global cases, internal and spacetime symmetries can be treated precisely on a par, so that gravitational theories may be regarded as gauge theories in a completely standard sense.

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