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Curved spacetimes with local $\kappa$-Poincar\'e dispersion relation

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2017-10-10 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We use our previously developed identification of dispersion relations with Hamilton functions on phase space to locally implement the κ\kappa-Poincar\'e dispersion relation in the momentum spaces at each point of a generic curved spacetime. We use this general construction to build the most general Hamiltonian compatible with spherical symmetry and the Plank-scale-deformed one such that in the local frame it reproduces the κ\kappa-Poincar\'e dispersion relation. Specializing to Planck-scale-deformed Schwarzschild geometry, we find that the photon sphere around a black hole becomes a thick shell since photons of different energy will orbit the black hole on circular orbits at different altitudes. We also compute the redshift of a photon between different observers at rest, finding that there is a Planck-scale correction to the usual redshift only if the observers detecting the photon have different masses.

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@article{arxiv.1703.02058,
  title  = {Curved spacetimes with local $\kappa$-Poincar\'e dispersion relation},
  author = {Leonardo Barcaroli and Lukas K. Brunkhorst and Giulia Gubitosi and Niccoló Loret and Christian Pfeifer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.02058},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

28 pages, updated to accepted journal version, appendix on kappa-Poincare electrodynamics added