Does gravity hide a broken gauge symmetry inside spacetime?

Gravity emerges from broken conformal gauge symmetry in this framework. The authors trace how bulk spacetime geometry translates into boundary structures—Schwarzian derivatives in AdS₂, Cotton tensors in AdS₄—showing these invariants are geometric leftovers of symmetry breaking. The correspondence works differently in lower versus higher dimensions, suggesting a unified picture of holography as boundary remnants of broken symmetry.