Eur. Phys. J. C (2008) 56: 571-578
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0677-4

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Gauge invariance and the CPT and Lorentz violating induced Chern–Simons-like term in extended QED

¹ Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica, MG, Avenida Amazonas, 7675, 30510-000, Nova Gameleira Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
² Physics Department, ICEx, Federal University of Minas Gerais, P.O. Box 702, 30.161-970, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
³ Departamento de Fisica, Universidade de Coimbra, 3004516, Coimbra, Portugal

^* e-mail: scarp@fisica.ufmg.br

Received: 16 June 2008
Revised: 1 July 2008
Published online: 29 July 2008

Abstract

The radiative induction of the CPT and Lorentz violating Chern–Simons (CS) term is reassessed. The massless and massive models are studied. Special attention is given to the preservation of gauge symmetry at higher orders in the background vector b _μ when radiative corrections are considered. Both the study of the odd and even parity sectors of the complete vacuum polarization tensor at one-loop order and a non-perturbative analysis show that this symmetry must be preserved by quantum corrections. As a complement we obtain the result that transversality of the polarization tensor does not fix the value of the coefficient of the induced CS term.