Understanding the Derivation of the Dirac Equation in Cosmology

[pleasehelpmeno]

Hi i am trying to derive the Dirac equation of the form:
[i\gamma^0 \partial_0 + i\frac{1}{a(t)}\gamma.\nabla +i\frac{3}{2}(\frac{\dot{a}}{a})\gamma^0 - (m+h\phi)]\psi where a is the scale factor for expnasion of the universe.


I understand that the matter action is S=\int d^{4}x e [\frac{1}{2}\partial_{\mu}\phi\partial^{\mu}\phi - V(\phi) + i \bar{\psi}\bar{\gamma}^{\mu}\vec{D}_{\mu}\psi -(m+h\phi)\bar{\psi}\psi)] but i don't understand firstly why there is a vierbein and not a \sqrt{-g} term.

I don't really understand why this is the case D_{\mu}=\frac{1}{4}\bar{\psi}\bar{\gamma}^{\mu} \gamma_{\alpha \beta}\omega^{\alpha \beta}_{\mu} and why the arrow above the D is gone.

And lastly I don't understand why \bar{\gamma}^{i}=\frac{1}{a(t)}\gamma^{i}

I understand that one needs to vary the action and i can do that bit but I don't understand some of these conversions, thx. I would appareciate any help that anyone can offer in tis challenge.

 

[Bill_K]

To deal with spinors in curved spacetimes (or even just curvilinear coordinates) you need to use a set of basis vectors. This is because the gamma matrices that obey {γ^μ, γ^ν} = 2g^μν aren't constant, so we use instead matrices referred to a basis, in which {γ^a, γ^b} = 2η^ab.

The covariant derivative is D_μ = ∂_μ - (1/4)σ_abω^ab_μ where σ_ab is the usual Dirac matrix, and ω^ab_μ are the Ricci rotation coefficients associated with the vierbein.

I think the only reason there's an arrow over the D is to remind us that it acts on the spinor to its right.

 

[pleasehelpmeno]

yeah thanks, i have a method to work on now.
I know that one can relate the spin connection to the gamma matrices by: \Gamma_{\mu} to \gamma by [\Gamma_{\mu},\gamma^{\nu}] but is this simply a standard commutator relationship or is it something more because wouldn't \Gamma_{1}\gamma^{1} - \gamma^{1}\Gamma_{1} =0 for example?