Non-Pauli Transitions From Spacetime Noncommutativity

TL;DR

This paper explores how spacetime noncommutativity can induce non-Pauli transitions in particles, suggesting a new energy scale beyond the Planck scale based on observational limits.

Contribution

It introduces a mechanism where cosmic events induce non-Pauli transitions due to spacetime noncommutativity, providing bounds on the noncommutative energy scale.

Findings

Non-Pauli transitions can be induced by cosmic events in noncommutative spacetime.

The energy scale for noncommutativity is constrained to be greater than approximately 10^{24} TeV.

This scale is beyond the Planck energy, indicating new physics at higher energies.

Abstract

There are good reasons to suspect that spacetime at Planck scales is noncommutative. Typically this noncommutativity is controlled by fixed "vectors" or "tensors" with numerical entries. For the Moyal spacetime, it is the antisymmetric matrix $\theta_{\mu\nu}$. In approaches enforcing Poincar\'e invariance, these deform or twist the method of (anti-)symmetrization of identical particle state vectors. We argue that the earth's rotation and movements in the cosmos are "sudden" events to Pauli-forbidden processes. They induce (twisted) bosonic components in state vectors of identical spinorial particles in the presence of a twist. These components induce non-Pauli transitions. From known limits on such transitions, we infer that the energy scale for noncommutativity is $\gtrsim 10^{24}\textrm{TeV}$. This suggests a new energy scale beyond Planck scale.