Consistency of isotropic modified Maxwell theory: microcausality and unitarity

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2011.02.011zbMATH Open1215.81132arXiv1011.4258OpenAlexW2067632888MaRDI QIDQ545228FDOQ545228

Sumit K. Garg, Yong-Cai Geng

Publication date: 22 June 2011

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Lorentz-violating isotropic modified Maxwell theory minimally coupled to standard Dirac theory is characterized by a single real dimensionless parameter which is taken to vanish for the case of the standard (Lorentz-invariant) theory. A finite domain of positive and negative values of this Lorentz-violating parameter is determined, in which microcausality and unitarity hold. The main focus of this article is on isotropic modified Maxwell theory, but similar results for two anisotropic nonbirefringent cases are presented in the appendices.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.4258

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zbMATH Keywords

Lorentz violationquantum electrodynamicsunitaritymicrocausality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

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