Physics – Mathematical Physics
Scientific paper
2009-05-08
Lett.Math.Phys.89:171-182,2009
Physics
Mathematical Physics
Scientific paper
10.1007/s11005-009-0351-2
It is known that no length or time measurements are possible in sub-Planckian regions of spacetime. The Volovich hypothesis postulates that the micro-geometry of spacetime may therefore be assumed to be non-archimedean. In this letter, the consequences of this hypothesis for the structure, classification, and conformal symmetry of elementary particles, when spacetime is a flat space over a non-archimedean field such as the $p$-adic numbers, is explored. Both the Poincar\'e and Galilean groups are treated. The results are based on a new variant of the Mackey machine for projective unitary representations of semidirect product groups which are locally compact and second countable. Conformal spacetime is constructed over $p$-adic fields and the impossibility of conformal symmetry of massive and eventually massive particles is proved.
Varadarajan V. S.
Virtanen Jani
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