Non-commutative waves for gravitational anyons (Q2000953)

This paper is a very-well written and self-contained presentation of anyonic fields in 2+1 dimensions and how they are affected by gravitational effects. It first proposes a clear and mathematically precise yet pedagogical review of the unitary representation of the \(\mathrm{SU}(1,1)\) Lorentz group and of its universal cover \(\widetilde{\mathrm{SU}}(1,1)\), with explicit parametrization of the group elements, formulas for the group products, and description of the conjugacy classes and adjoint orbits. The (double cover of the) 3d Poincaré group is described as \(\tilde{P}_3=SU(1,1)\ltimes \mathfrak{su}(1,1)^*\) while its universal cover is \({P}_3^\infty=\widetilde{SU}(1,1)\ltimes \mathfrak{su}(1,1)^*\). Standard massive fields are irreducible representations of the Poincaré group, while anyonic fields are defined as irreducible representations of its universal cover is \({P}_3^\infty\). The second step is taking into account the gravitational effects on the anyonic fields. 3d (quantum) gravity deforms the 3d Poincaré symmetry group to the quantum double of \(SU(1,1)\). The authors show how to construct the irreducible unitary representations of this double and define the corresponding covariant fields on the 2+1-d Minkowski spacetime using a group Fourier transform and the non-commutative star-product it induces on the Minkowski spacetime. This is definitely a must-read for anybody interested in the couplings of particles and matter fields to (quantum) gravity.