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| Dec 3, 2017 at 22:06 | comment | added | coconut | @DanielC Hmm, it seems strange to me to even talk about spinors (or spinorial fields) acting on anything. What do you mean, exactly? | |
| Dec 3, 2017 at 21:23 | comment | added | DanielC | It is misleading to even wrong to think/say that spinors (better said spinorial fields) do not act on flat/curved spacetime. The concept of spinor bundle (briefly touched upon by R. Wald in his chapter 13) explains everything, starting with the SL(2,C) principle fiber bundle over spacetime. | |
| Dec 3, 2017 at 12:31 | comment | added | coconut | @MoziburUllah Yes, or being a bit more precise: the spinor representations do not correspond to the space-time or it tangent spaces | |
| Dec 3, 2017 at 12:25 | comment | added | Mozibur Ullah | +1: this suggests that spinors don't act on space time, is that right? | |
| Dec 3, 2017 at 12:23 | history | answered | coconut | CC BY-SA 3.0 |