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$\kappa$-Poincar\'e-comodules, Braided Tensor Products and Noncommutative Quantum Field Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-06-16 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP Quantum Algebra

Abstract

We discuss the obstruction to the construction of a multiparticle field theory on a κ\kappa-Minkowski noncommutative spacetime: the existence of multilocal functions which respect the deformed symmetries of the problem. This construction is only possible for a light-like version of the commutation relations, if one requires invariance of the tensor product algebra under the coaction of the κ\kappa-Poincar\'e group. This necessitates a braided tensor product. We study the representations of this product, and prove that κ\kappa-Poincar\'e-invariant N-point functions belong to an Abelian subalgebra, and are therefore commutative. We use this construction to define the 2-point Whightman and Pauli--Jordan functions, which turn out to be identical to the undeformed ones. We finally outline how to construct a free scalar κ\kappa-Poincar\'e-invariant quantum field theory, and identify some open problems.

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@article{arxiv.2101.09683,
  title  = {$\kappa$-Poincar\'e-comodules, Braided Tensor Products and Noncommutative Quantum Field Theory},
  author = {Fedele Lizzi and Flavio Mercati},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.09683},
  year   = {2021}
}

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27 pages, 3 figures

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