The quadratic spinor Lagrangian is equivalent to the teleparallel theory

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1999, Pages

  Nester, James M ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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EID: 16444369214     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.60.021501     Document Type: Article

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