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Requiring physical consistency in a classical flat spacetime geometrisation of fermions is shown to suggest the introduction of torsion. A resulting simple model for that torsion produces a localised quantum-like particle as a solution of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-05 William J. Leigh

Two-spinor formalism for Einstein Lagrangian is developed. The gravitational field is regarded as a composite object derived from soldering forms. Our formalism is geometrically and globally well-defined and may be used in virtually any…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Marco Godina , Paolo Matteucci , Lorenzo Fatibene , Mauro Francaviglia

For conformal field theories in arbitrary dimensions, we introduce a method to derive the conformal blocks corresponding to the exchange of a traceless symmetric tensor appearing in four point functions of operators with spin. Using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-31 Miguel S. Costa , Joao Penedones , David Poland , Slava Rychkov

In this paper we present a space-time calculus for symmetric spinors, including a product with a number of index contractions followed by symmetrization. As all operations stay within the class of symmetric spinors, no involved index…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-29 Steffen Aksteiner , Thomas Bäckdahl

It is a commonplace that any theory can be written in any coordinates via tensor calculus. But it is claimed that spinors as such cannot be represented in coordinates in a curved space-time. What general covariance means for theories with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-21 J. Brian Pitts

The conformal anomaly in curved spacetime with antisymmetric torsion is reconsidered, taking into account new important details. We formulate, for the first time, the covariant solution of the anomaly-induced effective action. The covariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-17 Guilherme H. S. Camargo , Ilya L. Shapiro

In general relativity the affine connection is required to be symmetric so torsion is zero while according to the Einsten- Cartan's theory torsion is connected to the spin tensor as expressed by the Cartan's equations. We consider the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-24 Elisa Varani

The tensorial form of the spin-other-orbit interaction operator in the formalism of second quantization is presented. Such an expression is needed to calculate both diagonal and off-diagonal matrix elements according to an approach, based…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Gaigalas , A. Bernotas , Z. Rudzikas , C. Froese Fischer

The duality between a higher curvature $f(R)$ gravity model and a scalar-tensor theory helps to bring out the role of the additional degree of freedom originating from the higher derivative terms in the gravity action. Such a degree of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-21 Hitender Kumar , Tanmoy Paul , Soumitra SenGupta

The questions of the existence, basic algebraic properties and relevant constraints that yield a viable physical interpretation of world spinors are discussed in details. Relations between spinorial wave equations that transform…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Djordje Sijacki

As previously shown, the special relativistic dynamical equation of the Lorentz force type can be regarded as a consequence of a succession of space-time dependent infinitesimal Lorentz boosts and rotations. This insight indicate that the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-06-08 J. Buitrago , S. Hajjawi

We use classical (Penrose) two-component spinors to set up the differential geometry of two parabolic contact structures in five dimensions, namely $G_2$ contact geometry and Legendrean contact geometry. The key players in these two…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Michael Eastwood , Timothy Moy

We construct the Wightman function for symmetric traceless tensors and Dirac fermions in dS$_{d+1}$ in a coordinate and index free formalism using a $d+2$ dimensional ambient space. We expand the embedding space formalism to cover spinor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-16 Ben Pethybridge , Vladimir Schaub

Spinor gravity is a functional integral formulation of gravity based only on fundamental spinor fields. The vielbein and metric arise as composite objects. Due to the lack of local Lorentz-symmetry new invariants in the effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Wetterich

Under the spin-position decoupling approximation, a vector with a phase in 3D orientation space endowed with geometric algebra, substitutes the vector-matrix spin model built on the Pauli spin operator. The standard quantum operator-state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Sokol Andoni

It is shown how the old Cartan's conjecture on the fundamental role of the geometry of simple (or pure) spinors, as bilinearly underlying euclidean geometry, may be extended also to quantum mechanics of fermions (in first quantization),…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo Budinich

The spin foam formalism provides transition amplitudes for loop quantum gravity. Important aspects of the dynamics are understood, but many open questions are pressing on. In this paper we address some of them using a twistorial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Simone Speziale , Wolfgang M. Wieland

A new formalism for spinors on curved spaces is developed in the framework of variational calculus on fibre bundles. The theory has the same structure of a gauge theory and describes the interaction between the gravitational field and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Lorenzo Fatibene , Marco Ferraris , Mauro Francaviglia , Marco Godina

In this article we construct and discuss several aspects of the two-component spinorial formalism for six-dimensional spacetimes, in which chiral spinors are represented by objects with two quaternionic components and the spin group is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-28 Joás Venâncio , Carlos Batista

This work deals with the conformal transformations in six-dimensional spinorial formalism. Several conformally invariant equations are obtained and their geometrical interpretation are worked out. Finally, the integrability conditions for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-14 Carlos Batista