Intrinsic general relativity and Clifford algebra (Q2080189)

The article provides another step in the elegant author's mathematical formulation of some fundamental physical theories, like general relativity and Dirac fields theory. The main aim is to describe such theories in coordinate-free form. In this paper, the authors rewrite the general relativity theory in a noncommutative geometric framework. As a first step, the authors rewrite the equations intrinsically, or in other words, in coordinate-free formulation. As a second step, they rewrite the first and the second Bianchi identities, including torsion identities, using minimal algebraic assumptions. Furthermore, in order to adapt the general relativity to noncommutative scalar fields on a manifold, they adapt the definition of vector fields and connections. This leads to the notion of associative product for vector fields and derivations. Finally, the authors study the particular case of scalars represented by Clifford numbers. In this case, the authors give an elegant formulation of a system of Einstein-Hilbert field equations and of a Dirac field equation.