Spinors ?

DOI10.1016/0393-0440(85)90013-0MaRDI QIDQ1072111zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Angel Montesinos Amilibia

Publication date 1985

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0393-0440(85)90013-0

zbMATH Keywords

pseudo-Riemannian metricsquantum field theoryspinors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Constructive quantum field theory (81T08)

Review text

The author considers the question of the consistency of the notion of a spinor as it is widely understood and used in quantum gravity and quantum field theory. In effect he poses the following question: are there extensions of the definition of spinors which render them compatible with different pseudo-Riemannian metrics on a differentiable manifold ? The answer which he gives in detail is that there are no finite-dimensional true spinors compatible with the family of pseudo-Riemannian metrics on a smooth oriented manifold, i.e., in a broad sense spinors are really tensor fields.

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