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Towards an Axiomatic Formulation of Noncommutative Quantum Field Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-10-07 v4

Abstract

We propose new Wightman functions as vacuum expectation values of products of field operators in the noncommutative space-time. These Wightman functions involve the \star-product among the fields, compatible with the twisted Poincar\'e symmetry of the noncommutative quantum field theory (NC QFT). In the case of only space-space noncommutativity (θ0i=0\theta_{0i}=0), we prove the CPT theorem using the noncommutative form of the Wightman functions. We also show that the spin-statistics theorem, demonstrated for the simplest case of a scalar field, holds in NC QFT within this formalism.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0402212,
  title  = {Towards an Axiomatic Formulation of Noncommutative Quantum Field Theory},
  author = {M. Chaichian and M. N. Mnatsakanova and K. Nishijima and A. Tureanu and Yu. S. Vernov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0402212},
  year   = {2013}
}

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16 pages, version to appear in J. Math. Phys