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Phys. Rev. D 77, 025020 (2008) [8 pages]

S matrix on the Moyal plane: Locality versus Lorentz invariance

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A. P. Balachandran1,*, A. Pinzul2,†, B. A. Qureshi1,‡, and S. Vaidya3,§
1Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse New York, 13244-1130, USA
2Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, C. P. 66318, São Paulo, SP, 05315-970, Brazil
3Centre for High Energy Physics Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India

Received 17 October 2007; published 22 January 2008

Twisted quantum field theories on the Groenewold-Moyal plane are known to be nonlocal. Despite this nonlocality, it is possible to define a generalized notion of causality. We show that interacting quantum field theories that involve only couplings between matter fields, or between matter fields and minimally coupled U(1) gauge fields are causal in this sense. On the other hand, interactions between matter fields and non-Abelian gauge fields violate this generalized causality. We derive the modified Feynman rules emergent from these features. They imply that interactions of matter with non-Abelian gauge fields are not Lorentz- and CPT-invariant.

© 2008 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.77.025020
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.025020
PACS:
11.10.Nx, 11.30.Cp, 11.10.Lm

*bal@phy.syr.edu

apinzul@fma.if.usp.br

bqureshi@phy.syr.edu

§vaidya@cts.iisc.ernet.in