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Introducing the primed inertial coordinate system, for each inertial frame of reference, in addition to the usual inertial coordinate system, we assume that gravity-free space and time possess the Euclidean structures in the primed inertial…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian-Miin Liu

Lorentz invariance is a well known fundamental concept of special relativity but its violation is predicted by some variations of quantum gravity, string theory, and some alternatives to general relativity. We study neutrino oscillation at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-30 S. A. Alavi , M. Dehghani Madise

Lorentz invariance is a cornerstone of modern physics, yet its possible violation remains both theoretically intriguing and experimentally significant. In this work, using quantum electrodynamics as an example, we explore how Lorentz…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-21 Zurab Kepuladze

In this work, we formulate a generalized uncertainty principle with both position and momentum operators modified from their canonical forms. We study whether Lorentz symmetry is violated and whether it can be saved with these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-16 Michael Bishop , Daniel Hooker , Peter Martin , Douglas Singleton

This paper explores the generalized projective Riemann curvature in Finsler geometry, focusing on the properties of projectively equivalent Finsler metrics and the invariance of their curvature structures under projective transformations.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Nasrin Sadeghzadeh , Masoumeh Yaghoubi

If quantum gravity violates Lorentz symmetry, the prospects for observational guidance in understanding quantum gravity improve considerably. This article briefly reviews previous work on Lorentz violation (LV) and discusses aspects of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Ted Jacobson , Stefano Liberati , David Mattingly

Lorentz invariance is a fundamental symmetry of both Einstein's theory of general relativity and quantum field theory. However, deviations from Lorentz invariance at energies approaching the Planck scale are predicted in many quantum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 Jun-Jie Wei , Xue-Feng Wu

We study some physical consequences of the introduction of a Lorentz-violating modification term in the linearized gravity, which leads to modified dispersion relations for gravitational waves in the vacuum. We discuss two possible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. F. Ferrari , M. Gomes , J. R. Nascimento , E. Passos , A. Yu. Petrov , A. J. da Silva

This paper introduces a novel theoretical framework for identifying Lagrangian Coherent Structures (LCS) in manifolds with non-constant curvature, extending the theory to Finsler manifolds. By leveraging Riemannian and Finsler geometry, we…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Rômulo Damasclin Chaves dos Santos , Jorge Henrique de Oliveira Sales

Physical foundations for relativistic spacetimes are revisited, in order to check at what extent Finsler spacetimes lie in their framework. Arguments based on inertial observers (as in the foundations of Special Relativity and Classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-21 Antonio Bernal , Miguel Ángel Javaloyes , Miguel Sánchez

An extension of Riemmann's geometry into a direction dependent geometric structure is usually described by Finsler's geometry. Historically, this construction was motivated by the well-known Riemann's quartic length element example. Quite…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-07-06 Yakov Itin

In the last decade, a variety of high-precision experiments have searched for miniscule violations of Lorentz symmetry. These searches are largely motivated by the possibility of uncovering experimental signatures from a fundamental unified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Quentin G. Bailey

As a basic symmetry of Einstein's theory of special relativity, Lorentz invariance has withstood very strict tests. But there are still motivations for such tests. Firstly, many theories of quantum gravity suggest violations of Lorentz…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-06 Jun-Jie Wei

We present our Finsler spacetime formalism which extends the standard formulation of Finsler geometry to be applicable in physics. Finsler spacetimes are viable non-metric geometric backgrounds for physics; they guarantee well defined…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-21 Christian Pfeifer , Mattias N. R. Wohlfarth

A method is presented for deducing classical point-particle Lagrange functions corresponding to a class of quartic dispersion relations. Applying this to particles violating Lorentz symmetry in the minimal Standard-Model Extension leads to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-25 Neil Russell

Some studies interpret quantum measurement as being explicitly non local. Others assume the preferred frame hypothesis. Unfortunately, these two classes of studies conflict with Minkowski space-time geometry. On the contrary, in Aristotle…

General Physics · Physics 2008-05-19 B. Chaverondier

Lorentz Invariance Violation introduced as a generic modification to particle dispersion relations is used to study high energy cosmic ray attenuation processes. It is shown to reproduce the same physical effects for vacuum Cherenkov…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-09 H. Martínez-Huerta , A. Pérez-Lorenzana

We study modifications of general relativity, GR, with nonlinear dispersion relations which can be geometrized on tangent Lorentz bundles. Such modified gravity theories, MGTs, can be modeled by gravitational Lagrange density functionals…

General Physics · Physics 2017-06-13 Panayiotis Stavrinos , Olivia Vacaru , Sergiu I. Vacaru

Lorentz invariance, the fundamental symmetry of Einstein's theory of Special Relativity, has been established and tested by many classical and modern experiments. However, many theories that unify the Standard Model of particle physics and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-15 Fabian Kislat , Henric Krawczynski

In the context of threshold investigations of Lorentz violation, we discuss the fundamental principle of coordinate invariance, the role of an effective dynamical framework, and the conditions of positivity and causality. Our analysis…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ralf Lehnert