Pathways to relativistic curved momentum spaces: de Sitter case study

DOI10.1142/S0218271816500279zbMATH Open1347.81050arXiv1307.7988MaRDI QIDQ2809073FDOQ2809073

Authors: Giovanni Palmisano, Giovanni Amelino-Camelia, Giulia Gubitosi 

Publication date: 27 May 2016

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Several arguments suggest that the Planck scale could be the characteristic scale of curvature of momentum space. As other recent studies we assume that the metric of momentum space determines the condition of on-shellness while the momentum-space affine connection governs the form of the law of composition of momenta. We show that the possible choices of laws of composition of momenta are more numerous than the possible choices of affine connection on a momentum space. This motivates us to propose a new prescription for associating an affine connection to momentum composition, which we compare to the one most used in the recent literature. We find that the two prescriptions lead to the same picture of the so-called $kappa$-momentum space, with de Sitter metric and $kappa$-Poincar'e connection. We also examine in greater detail than ever before the DSR-relativistic properties of $kappa$-momentum space, particularly in relation to its noncommutative law of composition of momenta. We then show that in the case of "proper de Sitter momentum space", with the de Sitter metric and its Levi-Civita connection, the two prescriptions are inequivalent. Our novel prescription leads to a picture of proper de Sitter momentum space which is DSR-relativistic and is characterized by a commutative law of composition of momenta, a possibility for which no explicit curved-momentum-space picture had been previously found. We argue that our construction provides a natural test case for the study of momentum spaces with commutative, and yet deformed, laws of composition of momenta. Moreover, it can serve as laboratory for the exploration of the properties of DSR-relativistic theories which are not connected to group-manifold momentum spaces and Hopf algebras.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.7988

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum gravityrelative locality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Noncommutative geometry in quantum theory (81R60) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70)

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