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Spinors with torsion and matter$-$antimatter asymmetry

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Pith's one-line read Torsion in Einstein-Cartan gravity causes matter and antimatter to have different masses at high densities, allowing antimatter to be preferentially captured by primordial black holes.

desk verdict This extends the author's prior torsion papers with helicity dependence and a PBH capture step, but the asymmetry claim stays qualitative with no numbers or new derivations shown. read the letter →

arxiv 2101.04212 v3 submitted 2021-01-11 gr-qc quant-ph

Nikodem Pop{l}awski This is my paper
classification gr-qcquant-ph
keywords torsionDiracequationEinstein-Cartantheorymatter-antimatterasymmetrydispersionrelationsprimordialblackholesearlyuniverseCartandensity
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The reading

The paper establishes that the requirement of angular momentum conservation for Dirac particles in curved spacetime necessitates torsion in the connection, extending general relativity to the Einstein-Cartan theory. This torsion makes the Dirac equation nonlinear and cubic in the spinor wave function. The corresponding Hamiltonian has different energy eigenvalues for the fermion and antifermion components, violating charge conjugation symmetry and depending on helicity. As a result, matter and antimatter have different dispersion relations and density-dependent masses that become significant near the Cartan density of the early universe. Antimatter particles, being more massive, were slower and thus more likely to be captured by primordial black holes, providing a possible explanation for the observed matter-antimatter imbalance.

What carries the argument

The torsion tensor (antisymmetric part of the affine connection), required by angular momentum conservation, which modifies the Dirac equation to a nonlinear cubic form and produces distinct dispersion relations for fermions and antifermions.

What would settle it

A calculation integrating pair-production rates, black-hole densities, and velocity distributions in the early universe that shows the differential capture is too small to account for the observed baryon asymmetry, or a measurement finding identical dispersion relations for fermions and antifermions at densities near the Cartan density.

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Core claim

The conservation law for the orbital plus spin angular momentum of a free Dirac particle in curved spacetime requires that the affine connection has the antisymmetric part: the torsion tensor. In the presence of torsion, the Dirac equation becomes a nonlinear, cubic equation in the spinor wave function. The energy eigenvalues of the corresponding Hamiltonian as functions of the momentum are different for the fermion and antifermion components of the spinor, violating charge conjugation symmetry, and also depend on the helicity. Consequently, particles of matter and antimatter have different dispersion relations and therefore different masses. This mass difference increases with density and变得

Load-bearing premise

The derived difference in dispersion relations produces a capture-rate disparity large enough to explain the observed asymmetry, without quantitative integration over pair-production rates, black-hole number density, or velocity distributions in the early universe.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Matter and antimatter particles obey different dispersion relations due to torsion.
  • The mass difference grows with density and becomes significant near the Cartan density.
  • Antimatter particles are slower during pair production and have higher cross sections for gravitational capture by primordial black holes.
  • This differential capture can account for the matter excess in the observable universe.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The mechanism would operate only at densities near the Cartan density and would be negligible today.
  • The helicity dependence of the eigenvalues could produce additional polarization effects in high-density spin-polarized matter.
  • Confirmation would imply that consistency with spinors requires extending general relativity to include torsion.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript claims that the conservation of total angular momentum for Dirac particles in curved spacetime requires torsion, extending GR to Einstein-Cartan theory. The resulting Dirac equation is cubic and nonlinear in the spinor; its Hamiltonian eigenvalues depend on both momentum and helicity and differ between the fermion and antifermion sectors, violating C symmetry. Consequently the dispersion relations (and effective masses) of matter and antimatter differ, with the splitting growing with density and becoming appreciable near the Cartan density. In the early universe this mass disparity would have made antimatter slower at pair production, increasing its gravitational capture cross-section by primordial black holes and thereby depleting antimatter relative to matter.

Significance. If the dispersion asymmetry and its cosmological consequences can be placed on a quantitative footing, the work would supply a purely gravitational mechanism for the observed baryon asymmetry that requires no additional CP-violating phases or new fields. It also illustrates how torsion-induced nonlinearities in the Dirac equation can produce observable C violation at high density. The manuscript currently supplies only a qualitative outline; the absence of explicit solutions, error estimates, or integrated capture rates leaves the mechanism as an uncalibrated possibility rather than a demonstrated explanation.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract (final paragraph): the assertion that the derived mass difference produces a capture-rate disparity sufficient to account for the observed asymmetry (~10^{-9}) is unsupported by any integration over pair-production spectra, PBH number density, velocity distributions, or time-dependent density near the Cartan scale; without this step the mechanism remains suggestive rather than predictive.
  2. The energy eigenvalues of the nonlinear Dirac Hamiltonian are stated to differ for fermion and antifermion components, but the manuscript supplies neither the explicit form of these eigenvalues nor the steps that demonstrate the C violation; it is therefore impossible to verify that the mass splitting is independently derived rather than inherited from earlier work on the same equation.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the careful reading of our manuscript and the constructive comments. We address each major comment below.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract (final paragraph): the assertion that the derived mass difference produces a capture-rate disparity sufficient to account for the observed asymmetry (~10^{-9}) is unsupported by any integration over pair-production spectra, PBH number density, velocity distributions, or time-dependent density near the Cartan scale; without this step the mechanism remains suggestive rather than predictive.

    Authors: We agree that the manuscript presents only a qualitative outline and does not contain the integrations or error estimates needed to demonstrate that the mechanism quantitatively accounts for the observed asymmetry. In the revised version we will rephrase the final paragraph of the abstract to state that the mass difference 'could potentially contribute to' the imbalance, making explicit that the proposal remains suggestive pending further calculation. We will also add a short paragraph outlining the additional steps (spectra integration, PBH density evolution, etc.) required for a quantitative test. revision: yes

  2. Referee: The energy eigenvalues of the nonlinear Dirac Hamiltonian are stated to differ for fermion and antifermion components, but the manuscript supplies neither the explicit form of these eigenvalues nor the steps that demonstrate the C violation; it is therefore impossible to verify that the mass splitting is independently derived rather than inherited from earlier work on the same equation.

    Authors: The explicit eigenvalue expressions and the demonstration that they differ between the fermion and antifermion sectors (thereby violating C) are obtained by solving the torsion-modified nonlinear Dirac equation in the main text. To improve verifiability we will extract those expressions and the key algebraic steps into a new appendix in the revised manuscript. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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Derivation of helicity- and C-violating dispersion relations follows directly from the nonlinear Dirac equation without reduction to fitted inputs or self-citation chains

full rationale

The paper presents the nonlinear cubic Dirac equation as a direct consequence of requiring conservation of total angular momentum in the presence of torsion within Einstein-Cartan theory. It then states that the energy eigenvalues of the corresponding Hamiltonian differ for fermion and antifermion components as a function of momentum. No parameter is fitted to data and then relabeled as a prediction; no uniqueness theorem from the author's prior work is invoked to force the result; and the central mathematical step is exhibited as an explicit derivation rather than a renaming or self-referential definition. The subsequent suggestion that this mass difference could contribute to the observed asymmetry via differential PBH capture is framed as a possibility ('might have led'), not a quantitatively derived output, but this does not create circularity in the dispersion-relation claim itself. The derivation chain is therefore self-contained against the paper's own equations.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 1 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The paper rests on the standard framework of Einstein-Cartan gravity and the modified Dirac equation in curved spacetime with torsion; no additional free parameters or new entities are introduced based on the abstract.

assumptions (1)
  • domain assumption The affine connection has an antisymmetric part (torsion tensor) required by conservation of orbital plus spin angular momentum for a free Dirac particle in curved spacetime.
    Stated in the opening sentence of the abstract as the foundation for extending GR to Einstein-Cartan theory.

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abstract

The conservation law for the orbital plus spin angular momentum of a free Dirac particle in curved spacetime requires that the affine connection has the antisymmetric part: the torsion tensor, which extends general relativity to the Einstein$-$Cartan theory of gravity. In the presence of torsion, the Dirac equation becomes a nonlinear, cubic equation in the spinor wave function. We show that the energy eigenvalues of the corresponding Hamiltonian as functions of the momentum are different for the fermion and antifermion components of the spinor, violating charge conjugation symmetry, and also depend on the helicity. Consequently, particles of matter and antimatter have different dispersion relations and therefore different masses. This mass difference increases with density and becomes significant near the Cartan density, which existed in the early Universe. Because antimatter particles were more massive than matter particles, they were also slower during pair production in the early Universe and therefore had higher cross sections for gravitational capture by primordial black holes. This difference might have led to the matter$-$antimatter imbalance in the observable Universe: the missing antimatter fell into black holes.

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