Nonlocal quantum field theory without acausality and nonunitarity at quantum level: is SUSY the key?

DOI10.1142/S0217751X15501031zbMATH Open1320.81073arXiv1502.01471OpenAlexW3102140762WikidataQ57514516 ScholiaQ57514516MaRDI QIDQ2946302FDOQ2946302

Authors: Andrea Addazi, Giampiero Esposito 

Publication date: 16 September 2015

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The realization of a nonlocal quantum field theory without losing unitarity, gauge invariance and causality is investigated. It is commonly retained that such a formulation is possible at tree level, but at quantum level acausality reappears at one loop. We suggest the the problem of acausality is, in a broad sense, similar to the one about anomalies in quantum field theory. By virtue of this analogy, we suggest that acausal diagrams resulting from the fermionic sector and the bosonic one might cancel each other, with a suitable content of fields and suitable symmetries. As a simple example, we show how supersymmetry can alleviate this problem in a simple and elegant way, i.e., by leading to exact cancellations of harmful diagrams, to all orders of perturbation theory, in the case of a nonlocal Wess-Zumino model. On the other hand, the same is true for a super Yang-Mills model, but in this case, other important acausal diagrams are also originating from supersymmetric D-terms. As a consequence, we conjecture that, for a generic gauge theory, an infinite number of superfields are needed in order to obtain a complete cancellation between all diagrams. This framework is naturally occurring in string theory, where infinite Kaluza-Klein towers of higher-spin fields are generally predicted.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.01471

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zbMATH Keywords

string theorysupersymmetryquantum field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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