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In order to study the chaotic behavior of a system with non-local interactions, we will consider weakly coupled non-commutative field theories. We compute the Lyapunov exponent of this exponential growth in the large Moyal-scale limit to leading order in the t’Hooft coupling and 1/N. We found that in this limit, the Lyapunov exponent remains comparable in magnitude to (and somewhat smaller than) the exponent in the commutative case. This can possibly be explained by the infrared sensitivity of the Lyapunov exponent. Another possible explanation is that in examples of weakly coupled non-commutative field theories, non-local contributions to various thermodynamic quantities are sub-dominant.
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Fischler, W., Guglielmo, T. & Nguyen, P. Quantum chaos in a weakly-coupled field theory with nonlocality. J. High Energ. Phys. 2022, 97 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2022)097
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