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Canonical Realizations of Doubly Special Relativity
Doubly Special Relativity is usually formulated in momentum space, providing
the explicit nonlinear action of the Lorentz transformations that incorporates
the deformation of boosts. Various proposals have appeared in the literature
for the associated realization in position space. While some are based on
noncommutative geometries, others respect the compatibility of the spacetime
coordinates. Among the latter, there exist several proposals that invoke in
different ways the completion of the Lorentz transformations into canonical
ones in phase space. In this paper, the relationship between all these
canonical proposals is clarified, showing that in fact they are equivalent. The
generalized uncertainty principles emerging from these canonical realizations
are also discussed in detail, studying the possibility of reaching regimes
where the behavior of suitable position and momentum variables is classical,
and explaining how one can reconstruct a canonical realization of doubly
special relativity starting just from a basic set of commutators. In addition,
the extension to general relativity is considered, investigating the kind of
gravity's rainbow that arises from this canonical realization and comparing it
with the gravity's rainbow formalism put forward by Magueijo and Smolin, which
was obtained from a commutative but noncanonical realization in position space.Comment: 18 pages, accepted for publication in International Journal of Modern
Physics
Existence and uniqueness theorem for convex polyhedral metrics on compact surfaces
We state that any constant curvature Riemannian metric with conical
singularities of constant sign curvature on a compact (orientable) surface
can be realized as a convex polyhedron in a Riemannian or Lorentzian)
space-form. Moreover such a polyhedron is unique, up to global isometries,
among convex polyhedra invariant under isometries acting on a totally umbilical
surface. This general statement falls apart into 10 different cases. The cases
when is the sphere are classical.Comment: Survey paper. No proof. 10 page
Regular Incidence Complexes, Polytopes, and C-Groups
Regular incidence complexes are combinatorial incidence structures
generalizing regular convex polytopes, regular complex polytopes, various types
of incidence geometries, and many other highly symmetric objects. The special
case of abstract regular polytopes has been well-studied. The paper describes
the combinatorial structure of a regular incidence complex in terms of a system
of distinguished generating subgroups of its automorphism group or a
flag-transitive subgroup. Then the groups admitting a flag-transitive action on
an incidence complex are characterized as generalized string C-groups. Further,
extensions of regular incidence complexes are studied, and certain incidence
complexes particularly close to abstract polytopes, called abstract polytope
complexes, are investigated.Comment: 24 pages; to appear in "Discrete Geometry and Symmetry", M. Conder,
A. Deza, and A. Ivic Weiss (eds), Springe
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