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arxiv 2412.19626 v2 pith:FT77FYJQ submitted 2024-12-27 gr-qc hep-thmath-phmath.DGmath.MP

An impediment to torsion from spectral geometry

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Modifications of standard general relativity that bring torsion into a game have a long-standing history. However, no convincing arguments exist for or against its presence in physically acceptable gravity models. In this Letter, we provide an argument based on spectral geometry (using methods of pseudo-differential calculus) that suggests that the torsion shall be excluded from the consideration. We demonstrate that there is no well-defined functional extending to the torsion-full case of the spectral formulation of the Einstein tensor.

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