f(R) gravity with torsion and Lorentz violation
The Lounesto spinor classification is an important tool in fundamental physics, because it makes explicit the pleiade of spinors types, beyond the used in quantum field theory (QFT). In this work, we show how the classification emerges in two topics: first we show that the bilinear covariants arise naturally in the equation of motion for a fermionic field in a Riemann-Cartan background (with gravitational dynamics f(R)) and we identify a singular spinor field (a flag-dipole one) as a solution of the presented model. This is the first solution flag-dipole founded in the literature. We investigated the behavior of the bilinear covariants in the context of the called standard model extension of Colladay and Kostelecky and we present examples of transformations that violate the Lorentz symmetry, providing an extension of spinors classification, according to bilinear covariants, to scenarios with broken Lorentz symmetry. Finally, we proved that singular spinors of type flagpole are less susceptible to effects of Lorentz violation.