Using complexified quaternions, a formalism without Lorentz frames, and therefore also without vierbeins, for dealing with tensor and spinor fields in curved space-time is presented. A local U(1) gauge symmetry, which, it is speculated, might be related to electromagnetism, emerges naturally.
© 2009 American Institute of Physics.
2009
American Institute of Physics
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