Planck-scale dimensional reduction without a preferred frame
Abstract
Several approaches to quantum gravity suggest that the standard description of spacetime as probed at low-energy, with four dimensions, is replaced in the Planckian regime by a spacetime with a spectral dimension of two. The implications for relativistic symmetries can be momentous, and indeed the most tangible picture for "running" of the spectral dimension, found within Horava-Lifschitz gravity, requires the breakdown of relativity of inertial frames. In this Letter we incorporate running spectral dimensions in a scenario that does not require the emergence of a preferred frame. We consider the best studied mechanism for deforming relativistic symmetries whilst preserving the relativity of inertial frames, based on a momentum space with curvature at the Planck scale. We show explicitly how running of the spectral dimension can be derived from these models.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1311.3135,
title = {Planck-scale dimensional reduction without a preferred frame},
author = {Giovanni Amelino-Camelia and Michele Arzano and Giulia Gubitosi and Joao Magueijo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.3135},
year = {2015}
}