Triply special relativity

Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman and Lee Smolin
Phys. Rev. D 70, 065020 – Published 22 September 2004

Abstract

We describe an extension of special relativity characterized by three invariant scales, the speed of light c, a mass κ, and a length R. This is defined by a nonlinear extension of the Poincaré algebra A, which we describe here. For R, A becomes the Snyder presentation of the κ-Poincaré algebra, while for κ it becomes the phase space algebra of a particle in de Sitter spacetime. We conjecture that the algebra is relevant for the low energy behavior of quantum gravity, with κ taken to be the Planck mass, for the case of a nonzero cosmological constant Λ=R2. We study the modifications of particle motion which follow if the algebra is taken to define the Poisson structure of the phase space of a relativistic particle.

  • Received 5 July 2004

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.70.065020

©2004 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman1,* and Lee Smolin2,†

  • 1Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland
  • 2Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada

  • *Email address: jurekk@ift.uni.wroc.pl
  • Email address: lsmolin@perimeterinstitute.ca

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Vol. 70, Iss. 6 — 15 September 2004

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