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We explicitly establish the equivalence between the magnetic Carrollian limit of Einstein gravity defined through the Hamiltonian formalism and the Carrollian theory of gravity defined through a gauging of the Carroll algebra along the lines of standard Poincaré (or (A)dS) gaugings.
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Campoleoni, A., Henneaux, M., Pekar, S. et al. Magnetic Carrollian gravity from the Carroll algebra. J. High Energ. Phys. 2022, 127 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2022)127
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