Lorentz covariant κ-Minkowski spacetime

Ludwik Dąbrowski, Michał Godliński, and Gherardo Piacitelli
Phys. Rev. D 81, 125024 – Published 25 June 2010

Abstract

In recent years, different views on the interpretation of Lorentz covariance of noncommuting coordinates have been discussed. By a general procedure, we construct the minimal canonical central covariantization of the κ-Minkowski spacetime. Here, undeformed Lorentz covariance is implemented by unitary operators, in the presence of two dimensionful parameters. We then show that, though the usual κ-Minkowski spacetime is covariant under deformed (or twisted) Lorentz action, the resulting framework is equivalent to taking a noncovariant restriction of the covariantized model. We conclude with some general comments on the approach of deformed covariance.

  • Received 12 January 2010

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.81.125024

©2010 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Ludwik Dąbrowski*, Michał Godliński, and Gherardo Piacitelli

  • SISSA, Via Bonomea 265, 34136, Trieste, Italy

  • *dabrow@sissa.it
  • godlinsk@sissa.it
  • gherardo@piacitelli.org

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Vol. 81, Iss. 12 — 15 June 2010

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