In Minkowski spacetime, the Dirac equation can be found from the scalar propagator by the formula
SF(x−x′)=(iγμ∂μ+m)GF(x−x′)
Does a similar formula hold in curved spacetime? That is, can we just replace the partial derivative by the appropriate covariant derivative and arrive at the spinor propagator that way? I'm a little suspicious because of the extra curvature term that appears when squaring the Dirac operator:
(γμ∇μ)2=∇μ∇μ−R/4
If the above formula is wrong, is there a correct way to get the spinor propagator from the scalar propagator in an arbitrary spacetime?