Spinors, gravity and recalibration invariance. Microphysical motivation for the Weyl geometry (Q1372424)

The author presents a wide-ranging and broad-based survey of the issues and viewpoints concerning spinors, gravity, and recalibration invariance, which serves as a microphysical motivation for Weyl geometry. It is suggested that this geometry may provide a clue to the formulation of short-range massive modes in the theory of mutually interacting gravitational and spinor fields. The discussion is mathematically quite detailed and contains many interesting proposals for the physical interpretation of the theory. Contents include: an introduction; internal spaces, motivation and intrinsic geometry; field quantities, degrees of freedom, and transformation rules; conformal dynamical variables; freedom from conformal constraints; Heisenberg's ideas, spinor self-interactions, and the dynamical interpretation of Dirac precurrents.