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Space/Time Non-Commutativity and Causality

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Field theories based on non-commutative spacetimes exhibit very distinctive nonlocal effects which mix the ultraviolet with the infrared in bizarre ways. In particular if the time coordinate is involved in the non-commutativity the theory seems to be seriously acausal and inconsistent with conventional Hamiltonian evolution. To illustrate these effects we study the scattering of wave packets in a field theory with space/time non-commutativity. In this theory we find effects which seem to precede their causes and rigid rods which grow instead of Lorentz contract as they are boosted. These field theories are evidently inconsistent and violate causality and unitarity. On the other hand open string theory in a background electric field is expected to exhibit space/time non-commutativity. This raises the question of whether they also lead to acausal behavior. We show that this is not the case. Stringy effects conspire to cancel the acausal effects that are present for the non-commutative field theory.

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Uni-vector deformations, D0-bound states and DLCQ

hep-th · 2026-04-13 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

Uni-vector deformations in Type IIA map D0 backgrounds to themselves and generate F1-D0 and D2-D0 bound states while relating to DLCQ of M-theory.

Exponentially Long Evaporation of Noncommutative Black Hole

hep-th · 2026-04-06 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

Noncommutative spacetime shifts the collapsing shell proportionally to outgoing Hawking mode momentum, invalidating standard robustness arguments and causing radiation to decay exponentially after scrambling for exponentially long black hole evaporation.

Probing deformations

hep-th · 2026-05-22 · unverdicted · novelty 4.0

Poly-vector deformations of Type II and 11D backgrounds induce TTbar-like flows on the world-volume theories of strings and branes for both abelian and non-abelian deformations.

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  • Uni-vector deformations, D0-bound states and DLCQ hep-th · 2026-04-13 · unverdicted · none · ref 3

    Uni-vector deformations in Type IIA map D0 backgrounds to themselves and generate F1-D0 and D2-D0 bound states while relating to DLCQ of M-theory.

  • Exponentially Long Evaporation of Noncommutative Black Hole hep-th · 2026-04-06 · unverdicted · none · ref 59

    Noncommutative spacetime shifts the collapsing shell proportionally to outgoing Hawking mode momentum, invalidating standard robustness arguments and causing radiation to decay exponentially after scrambling for exponentially long black hole evaporation.

  • Probing deformations hep-th · 2026-05-22 · unverdicted · none · ref 2 · internal anchor

    Poly-vector deformations of Type II and 11D backgrounds induce TTbar-like flows on the world-volume theories of strings and branes for both abelian and non-abelian deformations.