Dirac field on Moyal-Minkowski spacetime and non-commutative potential scattering (Q625423)

The assumed quantum structure of space-time at the Planck scale has led to the hypothesis that formerly continuous and commuting coordinates may turn into non-commutative quantities and thus become subject to uncertainty relations. By now, various approaches to non-commutative space-time coordinates have been investigated. In particular, Alain Connes has studied examples of non-commutative Riemannian manifolds and their relation to gravity coupled to matter since 1994. In many other physically motivated investigations it is attempted to formulate a new theory of matter using either classical field theory, quantum mechanics or quantum field theory. But so far no observational evidence of any one of these approaches is known. In this paper the quantized free Dirac field is considered on Moyal-deformed Minkowski space-time of arbitrary dimension, however with traditional commutative time variable. The Moyal-deformation corresponds to the algebra of a Moyal plane in the setting of spectral geometry. The Dirac field is coupled to an external scalar potential with finite support in time leading to a non-local interaction of the Dirac field with the potential. The paper has nine sections. The main results are presented in Sec. 7 where it is proved that the Bogoliubov transformations describing potential scattering are unitarily implemented in the vacuum representation of the free Dirac field.