Physics Letters B 766 (2017) 205–211
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The κ-(A)dS quantum algebra in (3+1) dimensions
Ángel Ballesteros
a,∗
, Francisco J. Herranz
a
, Fabio Musso
b
, Pedro Naranjo
a
a
Departamento de Física, Universidad de Burgos, E-09001 Burgos, Spain
b
Istituto Comprensivo “Leonardo da Vinci”, Via della Grande Muraglia 37, I-0014 Rome, Italy
a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t
Article history:
Received
9 December 2016
Accepted
11 January 2017
Available
online 16 January 2017
Editor:
M. Cveti
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Keywords:
Anti-de
Sitter
Cosmological
constant
Quantum
groups
Poisson–Lie
groups
Lie
bialgebras
Quantum
duality principle
The quantum duality principle is used to obtain explicitly the Poisson analogue of the κ-(A)dS quantum
algebra in (3+1) dimensions as the corresponding Poisson–Lie structure on the dual solvable Lie
group. The construction is fully performed in a kinematical basis and deformed Casimir functions are
also explicitly obtained. The cosmological constant is included as a Poisson–Lie group contraction
parameter, and the limit → 0leads to the well-known κ-Poincaré algebra in the bicrossproduct basis.
A twisted version with Drinfel’d double structure of this κ-(A)dS deformation is sketched.
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1. Introduction
Since Classical Gravity is essentially a theory describing the
geometry of spacetime, it seems natural to consider that a suit-
able
definition of a “quantum” spacetime geometry emerging at
the Planck energy regime could be a reasonable feature of Quan-
tum
Gravity. Indeed, specific mathematical frameworks for such
“quantum geometry” have to be proposed. In particular, “quantum
spacetime” is frequently introduced as a noncommutative alge-
bra
whose noncommutativity is governed by a parameter related
to the Planck scale, thus leading to minimum length frameworks
through generalized spacetime uncertainty relations (see, for in-
stance, [1–5] and
references therein).
In
this context, quantum groups [6–8] provide a consistent ap-
proach
to noncommutative spacetimes, since the latter are ob-
tained
as noncommutative algebras that are covariant under the
action of quantum kinematical groups. For instance, the well-
known
κ -Minkowski spacetime [9–12] was obtained as a byprod-
uct
of the κ-Poincaré quantum algebra, which was introduced
in [13] (see also [14–16]) by making use of quantum group
contraction techniques [17,18]. One of the main features of the
κ-Poincaré quantum algebra (which is the Hopf algebra dual to the
quantum Poincaré group, and is defined as a deformation of the
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Corresponding author.
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addresses: angelb@ubu.es (Á. Ballesteros), fjherranz@ubu.es (F.J. Herranz),
fmusso@ubu.es (F. Musso), pnaranjo@ubu.es (P. Naranjo).
Poincaré algebra in terms of the dimensionful parameter κ) con-
sists
in its associated deformed second-order Casimir, which leads
to a modified energy-momentum dispersion relation. From the
phenomenological side, this type of deformed dispersion relations
have been proposed as possible experimentally testable footprints
of quantum gravity effects in very different contexts (see [19–21]
and
references therein).
Moreover,
if the interplay between quantum spacetime and
gravity at cosmological distances is to be modeled, then the cur-
vature
of spacetime cannot be neglected and models with non-
vanishing
cosmological constant have to be considered [22–25].
Thus, the relevant kinematical groups (and spacetimes) would be
the (anti-)de Sitter ones, hereafter (A)dS, and the construction
of quantum (A)dS groups should be faced. In (1+1) and (2+1)
dimensions, the corresponding κ-deformations have been con-
structed [26,27] (see
also [28–30] for classification approaches).
In fact, it is worth stressing that the κ-(A)dS deformation intro-
duced
in [27] was proposed in [31] as the algebra of symmetries
for (2+1) quantum gravity (see also [32]), and compatibility con-
ditions
imposed by the Chern–Simons approach to (2+1) gravity
have been recently used [33] in order to identify certain privi-
leged
(A)dS quantum deformations [34] (among them, the twisted
κ-(A)dS algebra [35–38]).
Concerning
(3+1) dimensions, we recall that in the papers
[13–16] the κ-Poincaré algebra was obtained as a contraction of
the Drinfel’d–Jimbo quantum deformation [6,39] of the so(3, 2)
and so(4, 1) Lie algebras, by starting from the latter written in the
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