Gauged q-fields

Abstract

The straightforward description of q-deformed systems leads to transition amplitudes that are not numerically valued. To give physical meaning to these expressions without introducing ad hoc remedies, one may exploit an “internal” Fock space already defined by the q-algebra. This internal space may be interpreted in terms of internal degrees of freedom of the deformed system or alternatively in terms of non-locality. It is shown that the q-deformation may give stringy characteristics to a Yang-Mills theory.