Quantized Dirac Fields in torsionful gravity: cosmological implications and links with the dark universe (2510.06874v1)

Abstract: We consider a classical field in square torsion theory as a source of torsion for a quantum fermion field in FLRW metric. In the framework of QFT, we obtain vacuum contributions to the energy-momentum tensor and to the axial current that modify the dynamics of the classical field and the field equations as back-reaction. These contributions lead to a modified classical field and therefore to a modified torsion term $L^\mu$ and expectation value of energy-momentum tensor $T^{\mu\nu}$ on the quantum vacuum, altering the field equations in an interative process. We consider the first step of this process and we find that the vacuum condensate could affect the inflationary phase of the Universe. Higher order terms could impact the dark Universe.