Large-scale non-locality in "doubly special relativity" with an energy-dependent speed of light
R. Schützhold1), W. G. Unruh
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Cosmology and Gravity Program;
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada V6T 1Z1
PACS: 03.30.+p, 04.50.+h, 04.60.-m, 11.30.Cp
Abstract
There are two major alternatives for violating the (usual) Lorentz
invariance at large (Planckian) energies or momenta - either not all
inertial frames (in the Planck regime) are equivalent (e.g., there is an
effectively preferred frame) or the transformations from one frame to another
are (non-linearly) deformed ("doubly special relativity"). We demonstrate
that the natural (and reasonable) assumption of an energy-dependent speed of
light in the latter method goes along with violations of
locality/separability (and even translational invariance) on macroscopic
scales.