Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2008-08-27
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
12 pages, no figures
Scientific paper
A argument is described for how deformed or doubly special relativity may arise in the semiclassical limit of a quantum theory of gravity. We consider a generic quantum theory of gravity coupled to matter, from which we use only the assumption that a Hamiltonian constraint is imposed. We study circumstances in which Lambda, G and hbar all may be separately neglected, but there may arise terms in the ratio of particle energies to the Planck mass which are small but measurable. Such cases include probes of an energy dependent speed of light such as are possible in experiments such as MAGIC and GLAST. We show that in such cases the leading order effect of quantum gravity will, if certain scaling relations are satisfied, be to deform the metric in the effective Hamiltonian of the matter quantum field theory by terms linear in energies. As the Hamiltonian constraint has been imposed there can be no preferred time coordinate or frame of reference, hence this is a modification rather than a breaking of special relativity.
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