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We prove a generalized version of the well-known Lichnerowicz formula for the square of the most general Dirac operator $\widetilde{D}$\ on an even-dimensional spin manifold associated to a metric connection $\widetilde{\nabla}$. We use…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 T. Ackermann , J. Tolksdorf

We apply the covariant analytic mechanics with the differential forms to the Dirac field and the gravity with the Dirac field. The covariant analytic mechanics treats space and time on an equal footing regarding the differential forms as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-25 Satoshi Nakajima

Applications of the Dirac equation with an anomalous magnetic moment are considered for description of characteristics of electrons, muons and quarks. The Dirac equation with four-dimensional scalar and vector potentials is reduced to a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-14 V. V. Khruschov

We study the initial value problem of the Einstein-Dirac system, and show the stability of the Minkowski solution in the massless case with the use of generalized wave coordinates. This requires the understanding of the Dirac equation in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-18 Xuantao Chen

By employing the polar re-formulation, we show that there are no solutions of the Dirac equations in spherical symmetry when the spinor is required to satisfy the same symmetries as the space-time via the Lie derivative.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Stefano Vignolo , Luca Fabbri

In the present paper, we study the Dirac equation in the background of Minkowski space-time on a light cone. With the help of the coupling of the radial parts, the system of 4 equations is reduced to two different second-order differential…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-08-22 Saman Rahmani , Hossein Panahi , Amerne Najafizade

The framework of the Covariant Canonical Gauge theory of Gravity (CCGG) is described in detail. CCGG emerges naturally in the Palatini formulation, where the vierbein and the spin connection are independent fields. Neither torsion nor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-22 David Vasak , Jürgen Struckmeier

It is a commonplace attributed to Kretschmann that any local physical theory can be represented in arbitrary coordinates using tensor calculus. But the literature also claims that spinors _as such_ cannot be represented in coordinates in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-30 J. Brian Pitts

In this paper, we derive the Dirac equation in the $\kappa$-deformed Minkowski space-time. We start with $\kappa$-deformed Minkowski space-time and investigate the undeformed $\kappa$-Lorentz transformation valid to all order in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-03 Ravikant Verma

Minkowski space, conformal group, compactification, conformal infinity, conformal inversion, light cone at infinity, SU(2,2), SO(4,2), Hodge star operator, Clifford algebra, spinors, twistors, antilinear operators, exterior algebra,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-05-24 Arkadiusz Jadczyk

One may ask whether the relations between energy and frequency and between momentum and wave vector, introduced for matter waves by de Broglie, are rigorously valid in the presence of gravity. In this paper, we show this to be true for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-22 Mayeul Arminjon , Frank Reifler

We present a summary of: 1) the non-uniqueness problem of the Hamiltonian and energy operators associated, in any given coordinate system, with the generally-covariant Dirac equation; 2) two different ways to restrict the gauge freedom so…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-07-05 Mayeul Arminjon

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

Using condition of relativistic invariance, group theory and Clifford algebra the component Lorentz invariance generalized Dirac equation for a particle with arbitrary mass and spin is suggested, where In the case of half-integral spin…

General Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 I. I. Guseinov

Connection of the invariant Dirac equation over the de Sitter space with irreducible representations of the de Sitter group is ascertained. The set of solutions of this equation is obtained in the form of the product of two different…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Semyon Pol'shin

We obtain exact solution of the Dirac equation for a charged particle with position-dependent mass in the Coulomb field. The effective mass of the spinor has a relativistic component which is proportional to the square of the Compton…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. D. Alhaidari

Equations for 16-component vector-bispinor field, originated from Rarita-Schwinger Lagrangian for spin 3/2 field extended to Riemannian space-time are investigated. Additional general covariant constrains for the field are produced, which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-09-20 V. M. Red'kov

We re-consider the procedure of ``taking a square root of the Dirac equation'' on the superspace and show that it leads to the well known superfield W_\alpha and to the proper equations of motion for the components, i.e. the Maxwell…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Adam Bzdak , Leszek Hadasz

The Dirac equation has been studied in which the Dirac matrices $\hat{\boldmath$\alpha$}, \hat\beta$ have space factors, respectively $f$ and $f_1$, dependent on the particle's space coordinates. The $f$ function deforms Heisenberg algebra…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 I. O. Vakarchuk

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