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Defining a spin connection is necessary for formulating Dirac's bispinor equation in a curved space-time. Hestenes has shown that a bispinor field is equivalent to an orthonormal tetrad of vector fields together with a complex scalar field.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Frank Reifler , Randall Morris

A common view is that generalization of a wave equation on Riemannian space-time is substantially determined by what a particle is - boson or fermion. As a rule, they say that tensor equations for bosons are extended in a simpler way then…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-09-13 V. M. Red'kov

We study a complex Dirac field in the chiral representation minimally coupled to gravity in 3+1 dimensions in the context of Einstein-Cartan theory. Generically the matter content gravitates in two different ways: On the one hand, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-12 Adolfo Toloza

In this paper we give a Clifford bundle motivated approach to the wave equation of a free spin $1/2$ fermion in the de Sitter manifold, a brane with topology $M=\mathrm{S0}(4,1)/\mathrm{S0}(3,1)$ living in the bulk spacetime…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-12-02 W. A. Rodrigues , S. A. Wainer , M. Rivera-Tapia , E. A. Notte-Cuello , I. Kondrashuk

We prove a sharp-in-time dispersive estimate of the Dirac equation on spinor bundles over the real hyperbolic space. Compared with the Euclidean counterparts, our result shows that the dispersive estimate differs between short and long…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Long Meng , Hong-Wei Zhang , Junyong Zhang

We clarify the structure obtained in H\'elein and Vey's proposition for a variational principle for the Einstein-Cartan gravitation formulated on a frame bundle starting from a structure-less differentiable 10-manifold (arXiv:1508.07765v2…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Jérémie Pierard de Maujouy

By bridging geometric and algebraic concepts, this dissertation lays the groundwork for a comprehensive study of the Clifford structures on bundles and spinor fields. We delve into the K\"ahler-Atiyah bundle, which encapsulates the essence…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Deborah Gonçalves Fabri

A non-canonical correspondence of the complete sets of solutions to the Dirac and Klein-Gordon free equations in Minkowski space-time is established. This allows for a novel viewpoint on the relationship of relativistic equations for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-23 Vladimir V. Kassandrov

We consider the Einstein-Dirac system for a massive field, which describes the evolution of self-gravitating massive spinor fields, and we investigate the global evolution problem, when the initial data set is sufficiently close to data…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-24 Philippe G. LeFloch , Yue Ma , Weidong Zhang

We examine the structure of the Clifford algebra associated with a Hermitian bilinear form and apply the result to a dynamical model of the relativistic point particle. The dynamics of the particle is described by a Dirac spinor with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Kaare Borchsenius

We present a geometric approach to the field theory with higher order anisotropic interactions. The concepts of higher order space, or locally anisotropic, space (in brief, h-space, or la-space) are introduced as general ones for various…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Sergiu I. Vacaru

First, the present work is concerned with generalising constructions and results in quantum field theory on curved spacetimes from the well-known case of the Klein-Gordon field to Dirac fields. To this end, the enlarged algebra of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-22 Thomas-Paul Hack

Representations of Dirac-Hestenes and Dirac spinor fields via coordinates of surfaces conformally immersed into 4-dimensional complex space are proposed. A relation between time evolution of spinor fields and integrable deformations of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vadim V. Varlamov

We propose a new framework for constructing geometric and physical models on nonholonomic manifolds provided both with Clifford -- Lie algebroid symmetry and nonlinear connection structure. Explicit parametrizations of generic off-diagonal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Sergiu I. Vacaru

In gravitation theory, the realistic fermion matter is described by spinor bundles associated with the cotangent bundle of a world manifold $X$. In this case, the Dirac operator can be introduced. There is the 1:1 correspondence between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 G. Sardanashvily

This work has as the main aim to explore the nature of the fermionic fields, through a classification of spinor fields about physical space of interest, such as the bulk and the compactified space $S^7$ from the supergravity theories. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-20 K. P. S. de Brito

A theory in which 4-dimensional spacetime is generalized to a larger space, namely a 16-dimensional Clifford space (C-space) is investigated. Curved Clifford space can provide a realization of Kaluza-Klein theory. A covariant Dirac equation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Matej Pavsic

Exotic dark spinor fields are introduced and investigated in the context of inequivalent spin structures on arbitrary curved spacetimes, which induces an additional term on the associated Dirac operator, related to a Cech cohomology class.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-13 Roldao da Rocha , Alex E. Bernardini , J. M. Hoff da Silva

Grassmann-valued Dirac fields together with the electromagnetic field (the pseudoclassical basis of QED) are reformulated on spacelike hypersurfaces in Minkowski spacetime and then restricted to Wigner hyperplanes to get their description…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Bigazzi , L. Lusanna

The Dirac operator for a manifold Q, and its chirality operator when Q is even dimensional, have a central role in noncommutative geometry. We systematically develop the theory of this operator when Q=G/H, where G and H are compact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 A. P. Balachandran , Giorgio Immirzi , Joohan Lee , Peter Presnajder