Non-commutative space-time of Doubly Special Relativity theories

TL;DR

This paper derives a unique non-commutative space-time structure for Doubly Special Relativity theories, showing it aligns with Snyder's earlier non-commutative Minkowski space and maintains Lorentz symmetry with an observer-independent length scale.

Contribution

It demonstrates that despite multiple energy-momentum constructions, the DSR space-time is uniquely non-commutative and equivalent to Snyder's model, preserving Lorentz invariance.

Findings

The DSR space-time is unique and non-commutative.

It is equivalent to Snyder's non-commutative Minkowski space.

The intrinsic length parameter is observer-independent.

Abstract

Doubly Special Relativity (DSR) theory is a recently proposed theory with two observer-independent scales (of velocity and mass), which is to describe a kinematic structure underlining the theory of Quantum Gravity. We observe that there is infinitely many DSR constructions of the energy-momentum sector, each of whose can be promoted to the $\kappa$-Poincar\'e quantum (Hopf) algebra. Then we use the co-product of this algebra and the known construction of $\kappa$-deformed phase space via Heisenberg double in order to derive the non-commutative space-time structure and description of the whole of the DSR phase space. Next we show that contrary to the ambiguous structure of the energy momentum sector, the space-time of the DSR theory is unique and equivalent to the theory with non-commutative space-time proposed long ago by Snyder. This theory provides non-commutative version of Minkowski space-time enjoying ordinary Lorentz symmetry. It turns out that when one builds a natural phase space on this space-time, its intrinsic length parameter $\ell$ becomes observer-independent.