THE EXTENDED ALGEBRA OF OBSERVABLES FOR DIRAC FIELDS AND THE TRACE ANOMALY OF THEIR STRESS-ENERGY TENSOR
Abstract
We discuss from scratch the classical structure of Dirac spinors on an arbitrary globally hyperbolic, Lorentzian spacetime, their formulation as a locally covariant quantum field theory, and the associated notion of a Hadamard state. Eventually, we develop the notion of Wick polynomials for spinor fields, and we employ the latter to construct a covariantly conserved stress-energy tensor suited for back-reaction computations. We shall explicitly calculate its trace anomaly in particular.
Dedicated to the memory of our friend and colleague Raffaele Punzi
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