Dirac fields, torsion and Barbero-Immirzi parameter in Cosmology

preprint2012arXivOpen access

Abstract

We consider cosmological solution for Einstein gravity with massive fermions with a four-fermion coupling, which emerges from the Holst action and is related to the Barbero-Immirzi (BI) parameter. This gravitational action is an important object of investigation in a non-perturbative formalism of quantum gravity. We study the equation of motion for for the Dirac field within the standard Friedman-Robertson-Walker (FRW) metric. Finally, we show the theory with BI parameter and minimally coupling Dirac field, in the zero mass limit, is equivalent to an additional term which looks like a perfect fluid with the equation of state \ p=wρp = wρ, with w=1w = 1 which is independent of the BI parameter. The existence of mass imposes a variable ww, which creates either an inflationary phase with w=−1w=-1, or assumes an ultra hard equation of states w=1w = 1 for very early universe. Both phases relax to a pressure less fluid w=0w = 0 for late universe (corresponding to the limit m→∞m\to\infty).

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