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Triply Special Relativity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

We describe an extension of special relativity characterized by {\it three} invariant scales, the speed of light, cc, a mass, κ\kappa and a length RR. This is defined by a non-linear extension of the Poincare algerbra, A\cal A, which we describe here. For RR\to \infty, A\cal A becomes the Snyder presentation of the κ\kappa-Poincare algebra, while for κ\kappa \to \infty it becomes the phase space algebra of a particle in deSitter spacetime. We conjecture that the algebra is relevant for the low energy behavior of quantum gravity, with κ\kappa taken to be the Planck mass, for the case of a nonzero cosmological constant Λ=R2\Lambda = R^{-2}. We study the modifications of particle motion which follow if the algebra is taken to define the Poisson structure of the phase space of a relativistic particle.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0406276,
  title  = {Triply Special Relativity},
  author = {J. Kowalski-Glikman and Lee Smolin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0406276},
  year   = {2009}
}

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