Braided Scalar Quantum Electrodynamics

Abstract

We formulate scalar electrodynamics in the braided $L_{\infty }$-algebra formalism and study its perturbative expansion in the algebraic framework of Batalin-Vilkovisky quantization. We confirm that UV/IR mixing is absent at one-loop order in this noncommutative field theory, and that the non-anomalous Ward-Takahashi identities for the braided gauge symmetry are satisfied.

48 pages; v2: minor changes