English

Non-metricities, torsion and fermions

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2018-08-07 v2

Abstract

I investigate the general extension of Einstein's gravity by considering the third rank non-metricity tensor and the torsion tensor. The minimal coupling to Dirac fields faces an ambiguity coming from a severe arbitrariness of the Fock-Ivanenko coefficients. This arbitrariness is fed in part by the covariant derivative of Dirac matrices, which is not completely determined as well. It is remarkable that this feature is not exclusive to the non-metricity case: it happens also for gravity with torsion alone. Nevertheless, theory in vacuum is well defined and non-trivial, where torsion is the source of non-metricity or vice-versa. I point also to the existence of two independent non-metricities.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1807.03270,
  title  = {Non-metricities, torsion and fermions},
  author = {G. de Berredo-Peixoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.03270},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

13 pages, LaTeX, no figures. Second version: I added some new references for completeness