Formulation of Electrodynamics with an External Source in the Presence of a Minimal Measurable Length

In a series of papers, Quesne and Tkachuk (J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 39, 10909 (2006); Czech. J. Phys. 56, 1269 (2006)) presented a D + 1-dimensional (β, β)-two-parameter Lorentz-covariant deformed algebra which leads to a nonzero minimal measurable length. In this paper, the Lagrangian formulation of electrodynamics in a 3+1-dimensional spacetime described by Quesne-Tkachuk algebra is studied in the special case β = 2β up to first order over the deformation parameter β. It is demonstrated that at the classical level there is a similarity between electrodynamics in the presence of a minimal measurable length (generalized electrodynamics) and Lee-Wick electrodynamics. We obtain the free space solutions of the inhomogeneous Maxwell’s equations in the presence of a minimal length. These solutions describe two vector particles (a massless vector particle and a massive vector particle). We estimate two different upper bounds on the isotropic minimal length. The first upper bound is near to the electroweak length scale (lelectroweak ∼ 10 m), while the second one is near to the length scale for the strong interactions (lstrong ∼ 10 m). The relationship between the Gaete-Spallucci nonlocal electrodynamics (J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 45, 065401 (2012)) and electrodynamics with a minimal length is investigated.