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We consider an environmentally dependent violation of Lorentz invariance in scalar-tensor models of modified gravity where General Relativity is retrieved locally thanks to a screening mechanism. We find that fermions have a modified…

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Stability and causality are investigated for quantum field theories incorporating Lorentz and CPT violation. Explicit calculations in the quadratic sector of a general renormalizable lagrangian for a massive fermion reveal that no…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Alan Kostelecky , Ralf Lehnert

I explain a simple definition of causality in widespread use, and indicate how it links to the Kramers Kronig relations. The specification of causality in terms of temporal differential eqations then shows us the way to write down dynamical…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-06-04 Paul Kinsler

In recent years there has been growing interest in verifying the horizon-scale homogeneity of the Universe that follows from applying the Copernican Principle to the observed isotropy. This program has been stimulated by the discovery that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. P. Zibin

Irreversibility and acausality of a sub-system are established in exactly soluble harmonic models with reversible and causal dynamics. It is shown that initial conditions, imposed on some dynamical degrees of freedom may break time reversal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Janos Polonyi

This survey article reviews recent results on fermion system in discrete space-time and corresponding systems in Minkowski space. After a basic introduction to the discrete setting, we explain a mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Felix Finster

We find Lorentzian solutions of spacetime noncommutative gauge theories that are localized exponentially in space and time. Together with time translational invariance of the theories, we argue that perurbative S matrix formulation of such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Dongsu Bak , Seok Kim

Bell appealed to the theory of relativity in formulating his principle of local causality. But he maintained that quantum field theories do not conform to that principle, even when their field equations are relativistically covariant and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-14 Richard Healey

The two closely related Lorentz-invariant partial orders of space-time are distinguished with respect to the existence of antichain cutsets and the possibility of grading. World lines of particles with or without mass are the maximal chains…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-02-27 Stephan Foldes

This article is a sequel to our previous paper (arXiv:2511.12311), where we considered the conceptual problem on the empirical laws for the Klein\textendash Gordon quantum field theory in curved spacetime (QFTCS), and we will consider the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-20 Hideyasu Yamashita

The perturbative framework of the space-time non-commutative real scalar field theory is formulated, based on the unitary S-matrix. Unitarity of the S-matrix is explicitly checked order by order using the Heisenberg picture of Lagrangian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Chaiho Rim , Yunseok Seo , Jae Hyung Yee

We study cosmological implications of a Lorentz invariance violating DGP-inspired braneworld scenario. A minimally coupled scalar field and a single, fixed-norm, Lorentz-violating timelike vector field within an interactive picture provide…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-12 Kourosh Nozari , S. Davood Sadatian

The problems connected with a causality of space-time universe and with the paradox of Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen are considered. A main philosophical problem and its possible solutions are briefly discussed. A concept of unified local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander A. Chernitskii

It is shown for causal fermion systems describing Minkowski-type spacetimes that an interacting causal fermion system at time $t$ gives rise to a distinguished state on the algebra generated by fermionic and bosonic field operators. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-04-19 Felix Finster , Niky Kamran

We present the first systematic investigation of the Lorentz covariance of the charge form factor for a strongly coupled scalar theory in (3+1)-dimensions. Our results are based on the first non-perturbative solution of the scalar Yukawa…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-22 Wenyu Zhang , Yang Li , James P. Vary

The theory of statistical mechanics is studied in the presence of Lorentz-violating background fields. The analysis is performed using the Standard-Model Extension (SME) together with a Jaynesian formulation of statistical inference.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Don Colladay , Patrick McDonald

We investigate the fractional time description of a generalized quantum light-matter system modeled by a time-dependent Jaynes-Cummings (JC) interaction, with different coupling types: constant, linear, exponential, and sinusoidal. Two…

Field theories with spontaneous Lorentz violation involving an antisymmetric 2-tensor are studied. A general action including nonminimal gravitational couplings is constructed, and features of the Nambu-Goldstone and massive modes are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-23 Brett Altschul , Quentin G. Bailey , Alan Kostelecky

In the light of some recent results, it is argued that usual concepts of causality and locality are approximations valid at scales greater than the Compton wavelength and corresponding time scales. It follows that the "spooky" non-locality…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. G. Sidharth

Supersymmetric models with Lorentz violation can be formulated in superspace. Two theories based on the Wess-Zumino model are discussed. A compactification of superspace can be employed to understand the chiral superfield that arises in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. S. Berger