Very Special Relativity

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2006-01-27

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0601236v1

Phys.Rev.Lett. 97 (2006) 021601

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

3 pages, revtex

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.021601

By Very Special Relativity (VSR) we mean descriptions of nature whose space-time symmetries are certain proper subgroups of the Poincar\'e group. These subgroups contain space-time translations together with at least a 2-parameter subgroup of the Lorentz group isomorphic to that generated by $K_{x}+J_{y}$ and $K_{y}-J_{x}$. We find that VSR implies special relativity (SR) in the context of local quantum field theory or of CP conservation. Absent both of these added hypotheses, VSR provides a simulacrum of SR for which most of the consequences of Lorentz invariance remain wholly or essentially intact, and for which many sensitive searches for departures from Lorentz invariance must fail. Several feasible experiments are discussed for which Lorentz-violating effects in VSR may be detectable.

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