Coupling fermions to gravity necessarily leads to a non-renormalizable, gravitational four-fermion contact interaction. In this essay, we argue that augmenting the Einstein–Cartan Lagrangian with suitable kinetic terms quadratic in the gravitational gauge field strengths (torsion and curvature) gives rise to new, massive propagating gravitational degrees of freedom. This is to be seen in close analogy to Fermi’s effective four-fermion interaction and its emergent W and Z bosons.
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Boos, J., & Hehl, F. W. (2017). Gravity-Induced Four-Fermion Contact Interaction Implies Gravitational Intermediate W and Z Type Gauge Bosons. International Journal of Theoretical Physics, 56(3), 751–756. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-016-3216-3
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