Embedding $\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{C})/\mathbb{Z}_2$ in Complex Riemannian Geometry
John. W. Moffat, Ethan. J. Thompson

TL;DR
This paper develops a geometric framework embedding the Lorentz group SL(2,C)/Z_2 into complex Riemannian geometry, enabling holomorphic spinor fields and singularity-regularized solutions without altering Einstein's equations.
Contribution
It introduces a unified complex geometric approach to realize the Lorentz group within complex Riemannian manifolds, facilitating holomorphic spinor fields and singularity regularization.
Findings
Holomorphic extension of metric and connection forms.
Contour deformation techniques for singularity avoidance.
Embedding of chiral spinors in complex manifolds.
Abstract
We present a unified framework demonstrating how the spinor complex Lorentz group SL(2,C)/Z\_2 is realized as a canonical subgroup within a four-dimensional complex Riemannian manifold. Building on the complex, holomorphic metric extension and contour-integration regularization of classical singularities, we show that promoting the metric to a complex-valued tensor on a complex 4-fold enlarges the frame bundle to SO(4,C). Its spin double cover factorizes as a product of two independent SL(2,C) factors modulo a shared Z\_2, and selecting one Weyl factor recovers the familiar SL(2,C)/Z\_2 spin cover of the Lorentz group. By explicitly extending metric components and connection forms into the complex domain, using contour deformations to avoid coordinate-singular loci, we exhibit how left- and right-handed Weyl spinors transform under separate SL(2,C) factors, and how modding out a common…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAdvanced Differential Geometry Research · Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows · Advanced Algebra and Geometry
