Spinor fields without Lorentz frames in curved space-time using complexified quaternions

DOI10.1063/1.3176022zbMATH Open1298.53039arXiv0811.1357OpenAlexW3102554745MaRDI QIDQ3069192FDOQ3069192

Authors: John Fredsted 

Publication date: 24 January 2011

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Using complexified quaternions, a formalism without Lorentz frames, and therefore also without vierbeins, for dealing with tensor and spinor fields in curved spacetime is presented. A local U(1) gauge symmetry, which, it is speculated, might be related to electromagnetism, emerges naturally.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.1357

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zbMATH Keywords

tensorsLorentz transformationspace-time configurations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connections (general theory) (53C05) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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