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Result: Invariant length scale in relativistic kinematics: lessons from Dirichlet branes

Title:
Invariant length scale in relativistic kinematics: lessons from Dirichlet branes
Authors:
SCHULLER, Frederic P, PFEIFFER, Hendryk
Source:
Physics letters. Section B. 578(3-4):402-408
Publisher Information:
Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 2004.
Publication Year:
2004
Physical Description:
print, 14 ref
Original Material:
INIST-CNRS
Subject Terms:
Theoretical physics, Physique théorique, Sciences exactes et technologie, Exact sciences and technology, Physique, Physics, Generalites, General, Relativité générale et gravitation, General relativity and gravitation, Relativité générale classique, Classical general relativity, Problèmes fondamentaux et formalisme général, Fundamental problems and general formalism, Physique des particules elementaires et champs, The physics of elementary particles and fields, Théorie générale des champs et particules, General theory of fields and particles, Théorie des cordes fondamentales, Theory of fundamental strings, Techniques non perturbatives; théorie du champ des cordes, Nonperturbative techniques; string field theory, Symétries et lois de conservation, Symmetry and conservation laws, Invariances de lorentz et de poincaré, Lorentz and poincaré invariance, Champ électrique, Electric fields, Groupe Lorentz, Lorentz groups, Groupe jauge, Gauge group, Grupo indicador, Invariance Lorentz, Lorentz invariance, Monde branaire, Brane world, Relativité générale, General relativity, Théorie Born Infeld, Born-Infeld theory, Théorie Dirac, Dirac theory, Teoría Dirac, Théorie corde, String theory
Document Type:
Academic journal Article
File Description:
text
Language:
English
Author Affiliations:
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, United Kingdom
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, 35 King Street N, Waterloo, Ontario N2J 2W9, Canada
Emmanuel College, St. Andrew's Street, Cambridge CB2 3AP, United Kingdom
ISSN:
0370-2693
Access URL:
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Rights:
Copyright 2004 INIST-CNRS
CC BY 4.0
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Notes:
Physics of elementary particles and fields

Theoretical physics
Accession Number:
edscal.15358625
Database:
PASCAL Archive

Further Information

Dirac-Born-Infeld theory is shown to possess a hidden invariance associated with its maximal electric field strength. The local Lorentz symmetry O (1, n) on a Dirichlet-n-brane is thereby enhanced to an O(1, n) x O(1, n) gauge group, encoding both an invariant velocity and acceleration (or length) scale. The presence of this enlarged gauge group predicts consequences for the kinematics of observers on Dirichlet branes, with admissible accelerations being bounded from above. An important lesson is that the introduction of a fundamental length scale into relativistic kinematics does not enforce a deformation of Lorentz boosts, as one might assume naively. The exhibited structures further show that Moffat's non-symmetric gravitational theory qualifies as a candidate for a consistent Born-Infeld type gravity with regulated solutions.