Thermal effects of very special relativity quantum electrodynamics

Abstract

In this paper we compute the high-temperature effective Lagrangian for the quantum electrodynamics defined in the framework of very special relativity (VSR). The main aspect of the VSR setting is that it modifies the gauge invariance, admitting now different types of interactions appearing in a nonlocal form. In order to explore the richness of these new couplings, we employ the usual Matsubara imaginary-time formalism to evaluate the effective Lagrangian at one- and two-loop order. We illustrate the leading VSR Lorentz violation modifications by computing high-temperature internal energy density and establishing a comparison with the expected contribution.