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Hamilton geometry: Phase space geometry from modified dispersion relations

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-11-04 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We describe the Hamilton geometry of the phase space of particles whose motion is characterised by general dispersion relations. In this framework spacetime and momentum space are naturally curved and intertwined, allowing for a simultaneous description of both spacetime curvature and non-trivial momentum space geometry. We consider as explicit examples two models for Planck-scale modified dispersion relations, inspired from the qq-de Sitter and κ\kappa-Poincar\'e quantum groups. In the first case we find the expressions for the momentum and position dependent curvature of spacetime and momentum space, while for the second case the manifold is flat and only the momentum space possesses a nonzero, momentum dependent curvature. In contrast, for a dispersion relation that is induced by a spacetime metric, as in General Relativity, the Hamilton geometry yields a flat momentum space and the usual curved spacetime geometry with only position dependent geometric objects.

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@article{arxiv.1507.00922,
  title  = {Hamilton geometry: Phase space geometry from modified dispersion relations},
  author = {Leonardo Barcaroli and Lukas K. Brunkhorst and Giulia Gubitosi and Niccoló Loret and Christian Pfeifer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.00922},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

32 pages, section on quantisation of the theory added, comments on additin of momenta on curved momentum spaces extended

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