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Planck-scale-deformed relativistic symmetries and diffeomorphisms in momentum space

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-02-10 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study the implications of a change of coordinatization of momentum space for theories with curved momentum space. We of course find that after a passive diffeomorphism the theory yields the same physical predictions, as one would expect considering that a simple reparametrization should not change physics. However, it appears that general momentum-space covariance (invariance under active diffeomorphisms of momentum space) cannot be enforced, and within a given set of prescriptions on how the theory should encode momentum-space metric and affine connection the physical predictions do depend on the momentum space background. These conclusions find support in some general arguments and in our quantitative analysis of a much-studied toy model with maximally-symmetric (curved) momentum space.

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@article{arxiv.1910.01673,
  title  = {Planck-scale-deformed relativistic symmetries and diffeomorphisms in momentum space},
  author = {Giovanni Amelino-Camelia and Stefano Bianco and Giacomo Rosati},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.01673},
  year   = {2020}
}

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Improved version after refereeing process for journal publication