Testable scenario for relativity with minimum length

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Amelino-Camelia, G [1 ]
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[1] Univ Roma La Sapienza, Dipartimento Fis, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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10.1016/S0370-2693(01)00506-8
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P1 [天文学];
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I propose a general class of spacetimes whose structure is governed by observer-independent scales of both velocity (c) and length (Planck length), and I observe that these spacetimes can naturally host a modification of FitzGerald-Lorentz contraction such that lengths which in their inertial rest frame are bigger than a "minimum length" are also bigger than the minimum length in all other inertial frames. With an analysis in leading order in the minimum length, I show that this is the case in a specific illustrative example of postulates for relativity with velocity and length observer-independent scales. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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