Pin groups in general relativity

Journal Article (2020)
Author(s)

Bas Janssens (TU Delft - Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science)

Research Group
Analysis
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.101.021702 Final published version
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Publication Year
2020
Language
English
Research Group
Analysis
Journal title
Physical Review D
Issue number
2
Volume number
101
Article number
021702
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Abstract

There are eight possible Pin groups that can be used to describe the transformation behavior of fermions under parity and time reversal. We show that only two of these are compatible with general relativity, in the sense that the configuration space of fermions coupled to gravity transforms appropriately under the space-time diffeomorphism group.