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In this essay, we examine a set of uncertainty principles that are proposed in the literature to encode possible features of a theory of quantum gravity.
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For example, the Poincaré group is replaced with the \(\kappa \)-Poincaré group.
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The author would like to thank Prof. G. Immirzi for fruitful discussions and valuable suggestions about this topic.
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Frassino, A.M. (2018). Quantum Gravity Deformations. In: Hossenfelder, S. (eds) Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity. FIAS Interdisciplinary Science Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64537-7_12
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