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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 SU(2)SU(2) symmetry, rather than the usual SU(2)LSU(2)_L spacetime symmetry related by analytic continuation to the Lorentz group SL(2,C)SL(2,\mathbf C).

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@article{arxiv.2311.00608,
  title  = {Spacetime is Right-handed},
  author = {Peter Woit},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.00608},
  year   = {2023}
}

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