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Path integral representations in noncommutative quantum mechanics and noncommutative version of Berezin-Marinov action

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

It is known that actions of field theories on a noncommutative space-time can be written as some modified (we call them θ\theta-modified) classical actions already on the commutative space-time (introducing a star product). Then the quantization of such modified actions reproduces both space-time noncommutativity and usual quantum mechanical features of the corresponding field theory. The θ\theta-modification for arbitrary finite-dimensional nonrelativistic system was proposed by Deriglazov (2003). In the present article, we discuss the problem of constructing θ\theta-modified actions for relativistic QM. We construct such actions for relativistic spinless and spinning particles. The key idea is to extract θ\theta-modified actions of the relativistic particles from path integral representations of the corresponding noncommtative field theory propagators. We consider Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations for the causal propagators in such theories. Then we construct for the propagators path-integral representations. Effective actions in such representations we treat as θ\theta-modified actions of the relativistic particles. To confirm the interpretation, we quantize canonically these actions. Thus, we obtain the Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations in the noncommutative field theories. The θ\theta-modified action of the relativistic spinning particle is just a generalization of the Berezin-Marinov pseudoclassical action for the noncommutative case.

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@article{arxiv.0707.0310,
  title  = {Path integral representations in noncommutative quantum mechanics and noncommutative version of Berezin-Marinov action},
  author = {D. M. Gitman and V. G. Kupriyanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.0310},
  year   = {2008}
}