Two-spinor formulation of first-order gravity coupled to Dirac fields

DOI10.1023/A:1001804718086MaRDI QIDQ1977595zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Paolo Matteucci, M. Francaviglia, Marco Godina, Lorenzo Fatibene

Publication date 13 January 2002

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9903023

zbMATH Keywords

2-component spinorsEinstein Lagrangianfirst order gravity theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: Two-spinor formalism for Einstein Lagrangian is developed. The gravitational field is regarded as a composite object derived from soldering forms. Our formalism is geometrically and globally well-defined and may be used in virtually any 4m-dimensional manifold with arbitrary signature as well as without any stringent topological requirement on space-time, such as parallelizability. Interactions and feedbacks between gravity and spinor fields are considered. As is well known, the Hilbert-Einstein Lagrangian is second order also when expressed in terms of soldering forms. A covariant splitting is then analysed leading to a first order Lagrangian which is recognized to play a fundamental role in the theory of conserved quantities. The splitting and thence the first order Lagrangian depend on a reference spin connection which is physically interpreted as setting the zero level for conserved quantities. A complete and detailed treatment of conserved quantities is then presented.

Review text

The authors develop a 2-component formalism for the splitting of the Einstein Lagrangian which is applicable to any \(4m\)-dimensional differentiable manifold admitting a pseudo-Riemannian metric of arbitrary signature without imposing any stringent topological requirements such as parallelizability. This is then applied to first-order gravity theory coupled with Dirac fields. Contents includes: an introduction; spin structures, spin-frames, and soldering forms; standard general relativity in the two-spinor formalism; and the global first-order spinor Einstein Lagrangian. The paper concludes with a 41 item list of references.

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