Noncommutative Sine-Gordon Model

Abstract

The sine-Gordon model may be obtained by dimensional and algebraic reduction from (2+2)-dimensional self-dual U(2) Yang-Mills through a (2+1)-dimensional integrable U(2) sigma model. It is argued that the noncommutative (Moyal) deformation of this procedure should relax the algebraic reduction from U(2) → U(1) to U(2)→U(1) × U(1). The result are novel noncommutative sine-Gordon equations for a pair of scalar fields. The dressing method is outlined for constructing its multi-soliton solutions. Finally, the tree-level amplitudes demonstrate that this model possesses a factorizable and causal S-matrix in spite of its time-space noncommutativity.