Composite Spinor Bundles in Gravitation Theory

Abstract

In gravitation theory, the realistic fermion matter is described by spinor bundles associated with the cotangent bundle of a world manifold $X$. In this case, the Dirac operator can be introduced. There is the 1:1 correspondence between these spinor bundles and the tetrad gravitational fields represented by sections of the quotient $\Si$ of the linear frame bundle over $X$ by the Lorentz group. The key point lies in the fact that different tetrad fields imply nonequivalent representations of cotangent vectors to $X$ by the Dirac's matrices. It follows that a fermion field must be regarded only in a pair with a certain tetrad field. These pairs can be represented by sections of the composite spinor bundle $S\to\Si\to X$ where values of tetrad fields play the role of parameter coordinates, besides the familiar world coordinates.