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Suppose there is a particle present on a circle, that is in a spatial dimension which is periodic with radius $R$. Thus it's momentum is quantised. It's momentum takes integer values upto a multiplicative constant ($\frac{n}{R}$). Since there is no spatial symmetry anymore, the momentum won't be transformed by Lorentz transformations between two different observers. So my question is:

  1. How would we transform the momentum values between two different frames of reference?
  2. Would a governing rule for finding answer 1 be that in any frame, the momentum must be same in structure (integer valued upto a multiplicative constant)?
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