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Influence of Lorentz- and CPT-violating terms on the Dirac equation Manoel M. Ferreira Jr and Fernando M.O. Moucherek Universidade Federal do Maranh˜ao (UFMA), Departamento de F´ısica, Campus Universit´ario do Bacanga, S˜ao Luiz - MA, 65085-580 - Brasil∗ The influence of Lorentz- and CPT-violating terms (in ”vector” and ”axial vector” couplings) on the Dirac equation is explicitly analyzed: plane wave solutions, dispersion relations and eigenen- ergies are explicitly obtained. The non-relativistic limit is worked out and the Lorentz-violating Hamiltonian identified in both cases, in full agreement with the results already established in the literature. Finally, the physical implications of this Hamiltonian on the spectrum of hydrogen are 7 evaluated both in the absence and presence of a magnetic external field. It is observed that the 0 fixed background, when considered in a vector coupling, yields no qualitative modification in the 0 hydrogen spectrum, whereas it does provide an effective Zeeman-like splitting of the spectral lines 2 whenever coupled in the axial vector form. It is also argued that the presence of an external fixed n field does not imply new modifications on the spectrum. a J PACS numbers: 11.30.Er, 11.10.Kk, 12.20.Fv 9 3 v 8 I. INTRODUCTION 1 0 Lorentz covariance, as is well-known, is a good symmetry of the fundamental interactions comprised in the 1 0 traditional framework of a local Quantum Field T