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Testable scenario for Relativity with minimum-length

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

I propose a general class of space-times whose structure is governed by observer-independent scales of both velocity (cc) and length (Planck length), and I observe that these space-times can naturally host a modification of FitzGerald-Lorentz contraction such that lengths which in their inertial rest frame are bigger than a "minimum length" are also bigger than the minimum length in all other inertial frames. With an analysis in leading order in the minimum length, I show that this is the case in a specific illustrative example of postulates for Relativity with velocity and length observer-independent scales.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0012238,
  title  = {Testable scenario for Relativity with minimum-length},
  author = {Giovanni Amelino-Camelia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0012238},
  year   = {2009}
}

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