Chiral fermions in noncommutative electrodynamics: Renormalizability and dispersion

We analyze quantization of noncommutative chiral electrodynamics in the enveloping algebra formalism in linear order in noncommutativity parameter $\theta$. Calculations show that divergences exist and cannot be removed by ordinary renormalization; however, they can be removed by the Seiberg-Witten redefinition of fields. Performing redefinitions explicitly, we obtain renormalizable Lagrangian and discuss the influence of noncommutativity on field propagation. Noncommutativity affects the propagation of chiral fermions only: half of the fermionic modes become massive and birefringent.