On second quantization on noncommutative spaces with twisted symmetries

Abstract

By the application of the general twist-induced ⋆-deformation procedure we translate second quantization of a system of bosons/fermions on a symmetric spacetime into a noncommutative language. The procedure deforms, in a coordinated way, the spacetime algebra and its symmetries, the wave-mechanical description of a system of n bosons/fermions, the algebra of creation and annihilation operators and also the commutation relations of the latter with functions of spacetime; our key requirement is the mode-decomposition independence of the quantum field. In a minimalistic view, the use of noncommutative coordinates can be seen just as a way to better express non-local interactions of a special kind. In a non-conservative one, we obtain a closed, covariant framework for quantum field theory (QFT) on the corresponding noncommutative spacetime consistent with quantum mechanical axioms and Bose–Fermi statistics. One distinguishing feature is that the field commutation relations remain of the type ‘field (anti)commutator=a distribution’. We illustrate the results by choosing as examples interacting non-relativistic and free relativistic QFT on Moyal space(time)s.