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Causal loop in the theory of relative locality

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2013-12-04 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We find that relative locality, a recently proposed Planck-scale deformation of special relativity, suffers from the existence of causal loops. A simple and general construction of such on-shell loop processes is studied. We then show that even in one of the weakest deformations of the Poincar\'e group in relative locality, causality can be violated.

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@article{arxiv.1212.5233,
  title  = {Causal loop in the theory of relative locality},
  author = {Lin-Qing Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.5233},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

5 pages, 3 figures; v3 matches the published version