Ellis 2007 Erratum (astro-ph/0510172): on Lorentz Violation

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arXiv:0712.2781 [ps, pdf, other]

Title: Erratum Robust Limits on Lorentz Violation from Gamma-Ray Bursts

Authors: John Ellis, N.E. Mavromatos, D.V. Nanopoulos, A.S. Sakharov, E.K.G. Sarkisyan

Comments: four pages latex, two eps figures, uses special macros

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

We correct the fitting formula used in refs. [1,2] to obtain a robust limit on a violation of Lorentz invariance that depends linearly on the photon energy. The correction leads to a slight increase of the limit on the scale of the violation, to M > 1.4 x 10^{16} GeV.