2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/198040A precise relation is established between the Stelle-West formulation of the Mac Dowell-Mansouri approach to a gauge theory of gravity and the approach based on a gauged Wess-Zumino-Witten term. In particular, it is shown that a consistent truncation of the latter correspond to the former. A brief review of the Lovelock-Chern-Simons motivation behind the gauged WZW ones is also done.references addedHigh Energy Physics - TheoryGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmologytext