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Massless Majorana spinors in the Kerr spacetime

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2025-12-11 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Differential Geometry

Abstract

In this paper, we show that massive Majorana spinors \eqref{1.2} do not exist if they are tt-dependent or ϕ\phi-dependent in Kerr, or Kerr-(A)dS spacetimes. For massless Majorana spinors in the non-extreme Kerr spacetime, the Dirac equation can be separated into radial and angular equations, parameterized by two complex constants ϵ1\epsilon_1, ϵ2\epsilon_2. If at least one of ϵ1\epsilon_1, ϵ2\epsilon_2 is zero, massless Majorana spinors can be solved explicitly. If ϵ1\epsilon_1, ϵ2\epsilon_2 are nonzero, we prove the nonexistence of massless time-periodic Majorana spinors in the non-extreme Kerr spacetime which are LpL^p outside the event horizon for 0<p6ϵ1+ϵ2+2 0<p\le\frac{6}{|\epsilon_1|+|\epsilon_2| +2}. We then provide the Hamiltonian formulation for massless Majorana spinors and prove that the self-adjointness of the Hamiltonian leads to the angular momentum a=0a=0 and spacetime reduces to the Schwarzschild spacetime, moreover, the massless Majorana spinor must be ϕ\phi-independent. Finally, we show that, in the Schwarzschild spacetime, for initial data with L2L^2 decay at infinity, the probability of the massless Majorana spinors to be in any compact region of space tends to zero as time tends to infinity.

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@article{arxiv.2512.09253,
  title  = {Massless Majorana spinors in the Kerr spacetime},
  author = {Tianyuan Cai and Xiao Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.09253},
  year   = {2025}
}

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