The minimal length is physical

Abstract

In this paper, we clarify a foundational loose end affecting the phenomenological approach to quantum gravity centered around the generalization of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. This misconception stems from a series of recently published works in which perturbative and non-perturbative methods are confused, thereby resulting in a blurring of the distinction between changes in the deformed algebra and changes in the representation of operators. Accordingly, this reasoning would render the existence of a minimal length representation-dependent, and thus unphysical.