THE CLIFFORD BUNDLE AND THE NATURE OF THE GRAVITATIONAL-FIELD

In this paper we formulate Einstein's gravitational theory with the Cl ifford bundle formalism. The formalism suggests interpreting the gravi tational field in the sense of Faraday, i.e., with the field residing in Minkowski spacetime. We succeeded in discovering the condition for this interpretation to hold. For the variables that play the role of t he gravitational field in our theory, the Lagrangian density turns out to be of the Yang-Mills type (with an auto-interaction plus gauge-fix ing terms). We give a brief comparison of our theory with other field theories of the gravitational field in the flat Minkowski spacetime.