The nontriviality of trivial general covariance: how electrons restrict `time' coordinates, spinors (almost) fit into tensor calculus, and \(\frac{7}{16}\) of a tetrad is surplus structure
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Publication:2436207
DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2011.11.001zbMath1281.81039arXiv1111.4586MaRDI QIDQ2436207
Publication date: 21 February 2014
Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.4586
Schwarzschild solution; spinor; general covariance; fermion; electron; geometric object; conventionality of simultaneity; absolute object; nonlinear group representation
81R25: Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory
83C05: Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems)
53C80: Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences
81R20: Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics
00A79: Physics
81Q35: Quantum mechanics on special spaces: manifolds, fractals, graphs, lattices
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