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Quantum Gravity Phenomenology and Lorentz Violation

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Jacobson, T., Liberati, S., Mattingly, D. (2005). Quantum Gravity Phenomenology and Lorentz Violation. In: Trampetić, J., Wess, J. (eds) Particle Physics and the Universe. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 98. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-26798-0_8

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