Nonlinear transforms of momenta and Planck scale limit
Creators
- 1. Centre de Physique Theorique, Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex (France)
Description
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
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1063/1.1593225;
- arXiv
- arXiv:hep-th/0211214v2;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Journal Volume
- 44
- Journal Issue
- 9
- Journal Page Range
- p. 3800-3808
- ISSN
- 0022-2488
- CODEN
- JMAPAQ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 35052974
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ALGEBRA; CONSERVATION LAWS; LORENTZ TRANSFORMATIONS; POINCARE GROUPS; POLARIZATION; POSITION OPERATORS; REST MASS; SO-4 GROUPS; SPIN; SUPERSYMMETRY; VELOCITY
- Descriptors DEC
- ANGULAR MOMENTUM; LIE GROUPS; MASS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATHEMATICS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; QUANTUM OPERATORS; SO GROUPS; SYMMETRY; SYMMETRY GROUPS; TRANSFORMATIONS
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2003 American Institute of Physics.