A no-go theorem establishes that only the composite spin-1/2 Dirac fermion propagates as dark matter in the quadratic spinor Lagrangian, ruling out spin-3/2.
Spacetime torsion fixes the mass and spin of gravitationally produced dark matter
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The gravitational production of dark matter from stochastic gravitational waves requires the produced fermion to acquire a mass by unspecified late-time physics. We show that this mass is supplied by spacetime torsion alone -- no Higgs sector and no free mass parameter. In the Quadratic Spinor Lagrangian formulation of general relativity, extended to Einstein--Cartan, a cosmological spinor condensate generates a vectorial trace torsion $K\propto\dot\chi/\chi$; an explicit Clifford reduction confers on the produced spin-1/2 fermion a pure Dirac mass $M_{\rm eff}=(1/\sqrt6)\,|\dot\chi/\chi|$, with no pseudoscalar or cross terms, locked to the Hubble rate at production, $M_{\rm eff}\simeq(c_\chi/\sqrt6)H_*$. The relic abundance is then a one-parameter prediction, $\Omega h^2\propto H_*^{5/2}$, and the spin is fixed: the same framework admits no propagating spin-3/2 mode, so the composite spin-1/2 Dirac fermion is its unique dark-matter candidate.
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Dark matter from the quadratic spinor Lagrangian II: A spin-3/2 no-go and the uniqueness of the spin-1/2 candidate
A no-go theorem establishes that only the composite spin-1/2 Dirac fermion propagates as dark matter in the quadratic spinor Lagrangian, ruling out spin-3/2.