Geometric Interpretation of Electromagnetism in a Gravitational Theory with Space–Time Torsion
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A complete geometric unification of gravity and electromagnetism is proposed by considering two aspects of torsion: its relation to spin established in Einstein–Cartan theory and the possible interpretation of the torsion trace as the electromagnetic potential. Starting with a Lagrangian built of Dirac spinors, orthonormal tetrads, and a complex rather than a real linear connection we define an extended spinor derivative by which we obtain not only a very natural unification, but can also fully clarify the nontrivial underlying fibre bundle structure. Thereby a new type of contact interaction between spinors emerges, which differs from the usual one in Einstein–Cartan theory. The splitting of the linear connection into a metric and an electromagnetic part together with a characteristic length scale in the theory strongly suggest that gravity and electromagnetism have the same geometrical origin. PACS number: 0450 Unified Field Theories and Other Theories of Gravitation e–mail: [email protected]
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Geometric Interpretation of Electromagnetism in a Gravitational Theory with Torsion and Spinorial Matter
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