The equivalence between metric and Palatini formalisms in f(R)-gravity can be achieved in the general context of theories with divergence-free current. This equivalence is a necessary result of a symmetry which is included in a particular conservation equation of the current. In fact the conservation equation, by an appropriate redefinition of the introduced auxiliary field, may be encoded in a massless scalar field equation.
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