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Minimum lengths with unmodified uncertainty principle and unmodified dispersion relation

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Abstract

Broad arguments indicate that quantum gravity should have a minimal length scale. In this talk we discuss a minimum length model by generalizing the time-position and energy-momentum operators while keeping much of the structure of quantum mechanics and relativity intact: the standard position-momentum commutator, the special relativistic time-position, and energy-momentum relationships all remain the same. Since the time-position and energy-momentum relationships for the modified operators remains the same, we retain a form of Lorentz symmetry. This avoids the constraints on these theories coming from lack of photon dispersion while holding the potential to address the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin (GZK) puzzle of ultra high energy cosmic rays.

Publication: arXiv:2205.06624 (to be published in IJMPD -- 2nd place awarded essay in the annual GRF essay context)

Presenters

  • Douglas A Singleton

    California State University Fresno - Fresno, CA, California State University, Fresno

Authors

  • Douglas A Singleton

    California State University Fresno - Fresno, CA, California State University, Fresno

  • Michael A Bishop

    California State University, Fresno, California State University Fresno - Fresno, CA

  • Joey Contreras

    California State University, Fresno, UC Merced