ON DIRAC FIELDS IN A CURVED SPACE-TIME

Griffiths, J.B.

doi:10.1088/0305-4470/12/12/020

ON DIRAC FIELDS IN A CURVED SPACE-TIME

J.B. Griffiths
(
- Loughborough U.
)

1979

7 pages

Published in:

J.Phys.A 12 (1979) 2429-2435

DOI:

10.1088/0305-4470/12/12/020

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It is shown that spin-1/2-particles with non-zero rest-mass have certain anomalous properties in a curved space-time. The sign of their energy density may be observer-dependent. In addition, the complete energy-momentum tensor may vanish in some space-times.

GRAVITATION
FIELD THEORY: SPACE-TIME
Dirac equation
FIELD THEORY: SPINOR
SPINOR: FIELD THEORY
SPIN
TENSOR: ENERGY-MOMENTUM
FIELD THEORY: MASSIVE
MASSIVE: FIELD THEORY

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