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arxiv: 2606.03004 · v1 · pith:CML44JUNnew · submitted 2026-06-02 · ✦ hep-th · quant-ph

Kinematical correlations via kappa-Poincar\'e coproducts

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keywords kappaauxiliarybranchesdeformedmomentumbasiscorrelationsdifferent
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We study a kinematical consequence of the Hopf-algebraic momentum composition law in $\kappa$-Minkowski spacetime. The same curved momentum space can be described in different coordinates. In the bicrossproduct basis the ordered-plane-wave labels are the translation-generator eigenvalues, so the relevant map is one-to-one. In the classical basis, instead, the translation eigenvalues $P_\mu$ are nonlinearly related to the ordered-plane-wave labels $p_\mu$. This relation can fail to be globally one-to-one in a high-momentum region. When a given classical-basis four-momentum admits more than one real auxiliary preimage, the branch-sensitive quantity $P_+\equiv P_0+P_4=\kappa e^{p_0/\kappa}$ enters the coproduct and resolves the branches in two-particle states. Imposing the vanishing total-momentum constraint therefore gives branch-dependent $\kappa$-deformed back-to-back momentum correlations. In a single-branch regime this is just a deformed correlated product, while in a multibranch regime a state specified only by $P_\mu$ can be expanded into distinct auxiliary branches. If $P_\mu$ are taken as the directly meaningful momenta, the physical content is the resulting deformed correlation pattern. If the auxiliary variables $p_\mu$ are assigned operational meaning, the same constrained state can be interpreted as a superposition over different auxiliary branches. We also compare this structure with standard regular self-adjoint nonrelativistic minimal-length models and find no analogous smooth local two-real-branch inversion on their physical domains.

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