Supersymmetry gauge theory including supergravity is mainly developed as a Yang - Mills gauge theory with spontaneous breakdown of supersymmetries. There are various superextensions of pseudo-orthogonal Lie algebras and the Poincaré Lie algebra. The nonlinear realization of some Lie superalgebras have been studied. However, supergravity introduced in SUSY gauge theory has no geometric feature as a supermetric.
In gauge theory on a principal bundle with a structure group , spontaneous symmetry breaking is characterized as a reduction of to some closed subgroup . By the well-known theorem, such a reduction takes place if and only if there exists a global section of the quotient bundle . This section is treated as a classical Higgs field.