Spacetime is Right-handed
High Energy Physics - Theory
2023-12-14 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We describe the relation between vectors and spinors in complex spacetime in an unconventional chirally asymmetric manner, using purely right-handed spinors, with Minkowski spacetime getting Wick rotated to a four-dimensional Euclidean spacetime with a distinguished direction. In this right-handed spinor geometry self-dual two-forms can be used to get chiral formulations of the Yang-Mills and general relativity actions. Euclidean spacetime left-handed spinors then transform under an internal symmetry, rather than the usual spacetime symmetry related by analytic continuation to the Lorentz group .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2311.00608,
title = {Spacetime is Right-handed},
author = {Peter Woit},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.00608},
year = {2023}
}
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