Deformed Spacetime: Geometrizing Interactions in Four and Five Dimensions

Science & Engineering

Deformed Spacetime: Geometrizing Interactions in Four and Five Dimensions Publisher: Springer
Language: English
ISBN: 1402062826
Paperback: 546 pages
Data: Oct 2007
Format: PDF
Description: This volume provides a detailed discussion of the mathematical aspects and the physical applications of a new geometrical structure of space-time, based on a generalization (deformation) of the usual Minkowski space, as supposed to be endowed with a metric whose coefficients depend on the energy. Such a formalism (Deformed Special Relativity, DSR) allows oneto account for breakdown of local Lorentz invariance in the usual, special-relativistic meaning (however, Lorentz invariance is recovered in a generalized sense) to provide an effective geometrical description of the four fundamental interactions (electromagnetic, weak, strong and gravitational)