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Representations of the Dirac wave function in a curved spacetime

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, , Citation Mayeul Arminjon and Frank Reifler 2011 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 306 012061 DOI 10.1088/1742-6596/306/1/012061

1742-6596/306/1/012061

Abstract

The Dirac wave function in a curved spacetime is usually defined as a quadruplet of scalar fields. It can alternatively be defined as a four-vector field. We describe these two representations in a common geometrical framework and we prove theorems that relate together the different representations and the different choices of connections. In particular, the standard Dirac equation in a curved spacetime, with any choice of the tetrad field, is equivalent to a particular realization of the Dirac equation for a vector wave function, in the same spacetime.

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