INTERACTING RELATIVISTIC PARTICLE: TIME–SPACE NONCOMMUTATIVITY AND SYMMETRIES

Abstract

We discuss the symmetry properties of the reparametrization invariant model of an interacting relativistic particle where the electromagnetic field is taken as the constant background field. The direct coupling between the relativistic particle and the electromagnetic gauge potential is a special case of the above with a specific set of subtleties involved in it. For the above model, we demonstrate the existence of a time–space noncommutativity (NC) in the space–time structure from the symmetry considerations alone. We further show that the NC and commutativity properties of this model are different aspects of a unique continuous gauge symmetry that is derived from the nonstandard gauge-type symmetry transformations by requiring their consistency with (i) the equations of motion, and (ii) the expressions for the canonical momenta, derived from the Lagrangians. We provide a detailed discussion on the noncommutative deformation of the Poincaré algebra.