June 1, 1997 | Don Colladay and V. Alan Kostelecký
The paper by Don Colladay and V. Alan Kostelecký explores the theoretical framework for treating low-energy effects of spontaneous CPT violation and partial Lorentz breaking within the context of conventional relativistic quantum mechanics and quantum field theory in four dimensions. They focus on developing a CPT-violating extension of the minimal standard model to establish quantitative bounds on CPT invariance. The authors begin with a simple model involving a single massive Dirac field to examine basic features of spontaneous CPT violation. They derive the modified Dirac equation and Klein-Gordon equation, and analyze the continuous symmetries of the model, including CPT, Lorentz, and translation symmetries. They discuss the implications of these symmetries for the model's behavior under Lorentz transformations and particle Lorentz transformations. The paper also explores field redefinitions to maintain invariance under CPT and Lorentz transformations, and discusses relativistic quantum mechanics and quantum field theory in the presence of CPT-violating terms. The authors conclude by providing a CPT-violating extension of the minimal standard model and establishing the physically observable subset of CPT-breaking terms.The paper by Don Colladay and V. Alan Kostelecký explores the theoretical framework for treating low-energy effects of spontaneous CPT violation and partial Lorentz breaking within the context of conventional relativistic quantum mechanics and quantum field theory in four dimensions. They focus on developing a CPT-violating extension of the minimal standard model to establish quantitative bounds on CPT invariance. The authors begin with a simple model involving a single massive Dirac field to examine basic features of spontaneous CPT violation. They derive the modified Dirac equation and Klein-Gordon equation, and analyze the continuous symmetries of the model, including CPT, Lorentz, and translation symmetries. They discuss the implications of these symmetries for the model's behavior under Lorentz transformations and particle Lorentz transformations. The paper also explores field redefinitions to maintain invariance under CPT and Lorentz transformations, and discusses relativistic quantum mechanics and quantum field theory in the presence of CPT-violating terms. The authors conclude by providing a CPT-violating extension of the minimal standard model and establishing the physically observable subset of CPT-breaking terms.