Doubly special relativity as a nonlocal quantum field theory

Abstract

In this work, we explore the quantum theories of the free massive scalar, the massive fermionic, and the electromagnetic fields in a doubly special relativity scenario. This construction is based on a geometrical interpretation of the kinematics of this kind of theory. In order to describe the modified actions, we find that a higher (indeed infinite) derivative field theory is needed, from which the deformed kinematics can be read. From our construction, we are able to restrict the possible models of doubly special relativity to those that preserve linear Lorentz invariance. We quantize the theories and also obtain a deformed version of the Maxwell equations. We analyze the electromagnetic vector potential for both an electric pointlike source and magnetic dipole. We observe that the electric and magnetic fields do not diverge at the origin for some models described with an anti–de Sitter momentum space, but they do for a de Sitter space in both problems.