Published September 2003 | Version v1
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Nonlinear transforms of momenta and Planck scale limit

  • 1. Centre de Physique Theorique, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex (France)

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Starting with the generators of the Poincare group for arbitrary mass (m) and spin (s), a nonunitary transformation is implemented to obtain momenta with an absolute Planck scale limit. In the rest frame (for m>0) the transformed energy coincides with the standard one, both being m. As the latter tends to infinity under Lorentz transformations the former tends to a finite upper limit m coth(lm)=l-1+O(l), where l is the Planck length and the mass-dependent nonleading terms vanish exactly for zero rest mass. The invariant m2 is conserved for the transformed momenta. The speed of light continues to be the absolute scale for velocities. We study various aspects of the kinematics in which two absolute scales have been introduced in this specific fashion. The precession of polarization and transformed position operators are among them. A deformation of the Poincare algebra to the SO(4,1) de Sitter one permits the implementation of our transformation in the latter case. A supersymmetric extension of the Poincare algebra is also studied in this context

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Journal Title
Journal of Mathematical Physics
Journal Volume
44
Journal Issue
9
Journal Page Range
p. 3800-3808
ISSN
0022-2488
CODEN
JMAPAQ

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(c) 2003 American Institute of Physics.