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It is shown that the introduction of an upper limit on the acceleration of particles provides a natural cutoff on momenta, avoiding the problem of ultraviolet divergencies in local quantum field theory. Such a cutoff turns out to be related to Planck energy.
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Lambiase, G. Quantization of Boson Fields in Quantum Geometry. International Journal of Theoretical Physics 40, 1267–1275 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1017579705792
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