Contracted chiral curvature identity

ID: contracted-chiral-curvature-identity

For the Levi-Civita connection, the action of the curvature commutator on a bivector obeys : both resulting curvature contractions pair the symmetric Ricci tensor with an antisymmetric tensor. For a bivector of one chirality, , this is . In particular it holds for ; polarization gives . The polarization step avoids incorrectly calling a simple bivector for independent spinors.

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