Gravitational contribution to fermion masses
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🌀 gr-qc
hep-thmath-phmath.MP
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contributionactionbackgroundconnectionscontextcouplingcovariantderivatives
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In the context of a nonlinear gauge theory of the Poincar\'e group, we show that covariant derivatives of Dirac fields include a coupling to the translational connections, manifesting itself in the matter action as a universal background mass contribution to fermions.
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