Comment on Noncommutativity as a Possible Origin of the Ultrahigh-energy Cosmic Ray and the TeV Photon Paradoxes


Abstract in English

A Lorentz-noninvariant modification of the kinematic dispersion law was proposed in [hep-th/0211237], claimed to be derivable from from q-deformed noncommutative theory, and argued to evade ultrahigh energy threshold anomalies (trans-GKZ-cutoff cosmic rays and TeV-photons) by raising the respective thresholds. It is pointed out that such dispersion laws do not follow from deformed oscillator systems, and the proposed dispersion law is invalidated by tachyonic propagation, as well as photon instability, in addition to the process considered.

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