Gravitational contribution to fermion masses
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-01-07 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
In the context of a nonlinear gauge theory of the Poincar\'e group, we show that covariant derivatives of Dirac fields include a coupling to the translational connections, manifesting itself in the matter action as a universal background mass contribution to fermions.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0506034,
title = {Gravitational contribution to fermion masses},
author = {Alfredo Tiemblo and Romualdo Tresguerres},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0506034},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
revtex4, 9 pages, no figures, to be published in Eur.Phys.J.C, 2005