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Non-Pauli effects from noncommutative spacetimes

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Noncommutative spacetimes lead to nonlocal quantum field theories (qft’s) where spin-statistics theorems cannot be proved. For this reason, and also backed by detailed arguments, it has been suggested that they get corrected on such spacetimes leading to small violations of the Pauli principle. In a recent paper [1], Pauli-forbidden transitions from spacetime noncommutativity were calculated and confronted with experiments. Here we give details of the computation missing from this paper. The latter was based on a spacetime \( {\mathcal{B}_{\chi \vec{n}}} \) different from the Moyal plane. We argue that it quantizes time in units of χ. Energy is then conserved only mod \( \frac{{2\pi }}{\chi } \). Issues related to superselection rules raised by non-Pauli effects are also discussed in a preliminary manner.

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Balachandran, A.P., Padmanabhan, P. Non-Pauli effects from noncommutative spacetimes. J. High Energ. Phys. 2010, 1 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2010)001

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