Non-Causal Propagation for Higher-Order Interactions of Torsion with Spinor Fields

2018/03/13 by Luca Fabbri · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/s10773-018-3694-6

published as Int.J.Theor.Phys.57:1683(2018) · 4 pages

arxiv created 2018/03/13 · arxiv updated 2018/05/10

Abstract

We consider field equations of spinors with torsional interactions having higher-order dimension: by applying the Velo-Zwanziger method, we obtain that it is always possible to find situations where the propagation is affected by non-causal behaviour.

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