Gauge theories of gravitation : a reader with commentaries / [edited by] Milutin Blagojevic, Friedrich W. Hehl ; foreword by T. W. B. Kibble.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part A The Rise of Gauge Theory of Gravity Up to 1961:
1. From Special to General Relativity Theory;
2. Analyzing General Relativity Theory;
3. A Fresh Start by Yang - Mills and Utiyama;

Part B Poincare Gauge Theory:
4. Einstein - Cartan( - Sciama - Kibble) Theory as a Viable Gravitational Theory;
5. General Structure of Poincare Gauge Theory (Including Quadratic Lagrangians);
6. Translational Gauge Theory;
7. Fallacies About Torsion;

Part C Extending the Gauge Group of Gravity:
8. Poincare Group Plus Scale Transformations: Weyl - Cartan Gauge Theory of Gravity;
9. From the Poincare to the Affine Group: Metric-Affine Gravity; 10. Conformal Gauge Theory of Gravity;
11. (Anti-)de Sitter Gauge Theory of Gravity;
12. From the Square Root of Translations to the Super-Poincare Group;

Part D Specific Subjects of Metric-Affine Gravity and Poincare Gauge Theory:
13. Hamiltonian Structure;
14. Equations of Motion for Matter;
15. Cosmological Models;
16. Exact Solutions;
17. Poincare Gauge Theory in Three Dimensions;
18. Dislocations and Torsion;
19. The Yang Episode: A Historical Case Study;
Index.

Introduces graduate and advanced undergraduate students of theoretical or mathematical physics, or any other interested researcher, to the field of classical gauge theories of gravity.