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The Magueijo-Smolin Group in Doubly-Special Relativity is Linear in Five Dimensions

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2007-05-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Magueijo and Smolin have introduced a modification of the Lorentz group for the momentum-space transformations in Doubly-Special Relativity. As presented the group is non-linear, but we show that it is a group of fraction-linear transformations in 4 dimensional real projective space. We pass to the associated 5 dimensional linear space and identify the subgroup as a conjugate of the ordinary Lorentz group, giving the conjugating matrix. Taking the dual of the 5-space, we identify a subgroup as the Lorentz transformations about a point different to the origin.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0304079,
  title  = {The Magueijo-Smolin Group in Doubly-Special Relativity is Linear in Five Dimensions},
  author = {Patrick J. McCarthy and R. L. Schafir},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0304079},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages