Thermal time of noncommutative Minkowski spacetime

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contents In this paper, we study the thermal time hypothesis of arXiv:gr-qc/9406019 in the context of noncommutative deformations of Minkowski. We show that a natural modular group arises from the modular function of the momentum space. In the specific case of $κ$-Minkowski, we show that this thermal time flow corresponds to the globally defined time coordinate translation. On the other hand, the absence of thermal time for $ρ$-Minkowski is directly related to the discreteness of its global time. The impact of inner automorphism transformation on the physics and the treatment of unimodular case (unthermalised spacetimes) are discussed. Moreover, a reflection on the use of thermal field theory for quantum gravity phenomenology is put forward, as we just bridged thermal spacetimes with $κ$-Minkowski, often considered a "flat limit" of a quantum gravity candidate theory.
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Hersent, Kilian
High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
In this paper, we study the thermal time hypothesis of arXiv:gr-qc/9406019 in the context of noncommutative deformations of Minkowski. We show that a natural modular group arises from the modular function of the momentum space. In the specific case of $κ$-Minkowski, we show that this thermal time flow corresponds to the globally defined time coordinate translation. On the other hand, the absence of thermal time for $ρ$-Minkowski is directly related to the discreteness of its global time. The impact of inner automorphism transformation on the physics and the treatment of unimodular case (unthermalised spacetimes) are discussed. Moreover, a reflection on the use of thermal field theory for quantum gravity phenomenology is put forward, as we just bridged thermal spacetimes with $κ$-Minkowski, often considered a "flat limit" of a quantum gravity candidate theory.
title Thermal time of noncommutative Minkowski spacetime
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12750