Fermi transport of spinors and free QED states in curved spacetime

DOI10.1142/S0219887809003801MaRDI QIDQ3401896zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Daniel Canarutto

Publication date 1 February 2010

Published in International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.0651

zbMATH Keywords

free electronDirac spinorsFermi transporttwo-spinorsstates in QED

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of local Riemannian geometry (53B21) Linear and affine connections (53B05) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) General mathematical topics and methods in quantum theory (81Q99)

Abstract: Fermi transport of spinors can be precisely understood in terms of 2-spinor geometry. By using a partly original, previously developed treatment of 2-spinors and classical fields, we describe the family of all transports, along a given 1-dimensional timelike submanifold of spacetime, which yield the standard Fermi transport of vectors. Moreover we show that this family has a distinguished member, whose relation to the Fermi transport of vectors is similar to the relation between the spinor connection and spacetime connection. Various properties of the Fermi transport of spinors are discussed, and applied to the construction of free electron states for a detector-dependent QED formalism introduced in a previous paper.

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