Remarks on time space noncommutative field theories

Mar, 2001
19 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 05 (2001) 057
e-Print:
Report number:
  • CERN-TH-2001-052,
  • ZH-TH-06-01

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Abstract:
We propose a physical interpretation of the perturbative breakdown of unitarity in time-like noncommutative field theories in terms of production of tachyonic particles. These particles may be viewed as a remnant of a continuous spectrum of undecoupled closed-string modes. In this way, we give a unified view of the string-theoretical and the field-theoretical no-go arguments against time-like noncommutative theories. We also perform a quantitative study of various locality and causality properties of noncommutative field theories at the quantum level.
  • phi**n model
  • any-dimensional
  • differential geometry: noncommutative
  • unitarity: symmetry breaking
  • perturbation theory: higher-order
  • string model
  • tachyon: production
  • causality
  • bibliography