Geometry creates inertia

DOI10.1142/S0218271820430208MaRDI QIDQ4963871zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Amitabha Lahiri

Publication date 23 February 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.07676

zbMATH Keywords

Einstein-Cartan theoryfour-fermion interactionneutrino oscillationnon-minimal couplingtorsion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) 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: The dynamics of fermions in curved spacetime is governed by a spin connection, a part of which is contorsion, an auxiliary field independent of the metric, without dynamics but fully expressible in terms of the axial current density of fermions. Its effect is the appearance of a quartic interaction involving all fermions. Contorsion can couple to left and right-handed fermions with different strengths, leading to an effective mass for fermions propagating on a background containing fermionic matter.

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