Failure of microcausality in quantum field theory on noncommutative spacetime

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Greenberg, O W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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EID: 33244462663     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.73.045014     Document Type: Article

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