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Microcausality of Dirac field on noncommutative spacetime

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v3

Abstract

We study the microcausality of free Dirac field on noncommutative spacetime. We calculate the vacuum and non-vacuum state expectation values for the Moyal commutator [ψˉα(x)ψβ(x),ψˉσ(x)ψτ(x)][\bar{\psi}_{\alpha}(x)\star\psi_{\beta}(x),\bar{\psi}_ {\sigma}(x^{\prime})\star\psi_{\tau}(x^{\prime})]_{\star} of Dirac field on noncommutative spacetime. We find that they do not vanish for some cases of the indexes for an arbitrary spacelike interval, no matter whether θ0i=0\theta^{0i}=0 or θ0i0\theta^{0i}\neq0. However for the physical observable quantities of Dirac field such as the Lorentz scalar :ψˉ(x)ψ(x)::\bar{\psi}(x)\star\psi(x): and the current jμ(x)=:ψˉ(x)γμψ(x):j^{\mu}(x)=:\bar{\psi}(x)\gamma^{\mu}\star\psi(x): etc., we find that they still satisfy the microcausality. Therefore microcausality is satisfied for Dirac field on noncommutative spacetime.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0603181,
  title  = {Microcausality of Dirac field on noncommutative spacetime},
  author = {Zheng Ze Ma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0603181},
  year   = {2007}
}

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21 pages, Latex, v3, some mistakes corrected

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