Published August 15, 2003 | Version v1
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Conservation laws in 'doubly special relativity'

  • 1. School of Mathematical and Computing Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington (New Zealand)
  • 2. Columbia University, New York, New York 10027 (United States)

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Motivated by various theoretical arguments that the Planck energy (EPlanck∼1019 GeV) should herald departures from Lorentz invariance, and the possibility of testing these expectations in the not too distant future, two so-called 'doubly special relativity' theories have been suggested--the first by Amelino-Camelia (DSR1) and the second by Smolin and Magueijo (DSR2). These theories contain two fundamental scales--the speed of light and an energy usually taken to be EPlanck. The symmetry group is still the Lorentz group, but in both cases acting nonlinearly on the energy-momentum sector. Since energy and momentum are no longer additive quantities, finding their values for composite systems (and hence finding appropriate conservation laws) is a nontrivial matter. Ultimately it is these possible deviations from simple linearly realized relativistic kinematics that provide the most promising observational signal for empirically testing these models. Various investigations have narrowed the conservation laws down to two possibilities per DSR theory. We derive unique exact results for the energy momentum of composite systems in both DSR1 and DSR2, and indicate the general strategy for arbitrary nonlinear realizations of the Lorentz group

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
68
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 045001-045001.4
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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