Non-commutative waves for gravitational anyons

We revisit the representation theory of the quantum double of the universal cover of the Lorentz group in 2+1 dimensions, motivated by its role as a deformed Poincar\'e symmetry and symmetry algebra in (2+1)-dimensional quantum gravity. We express the unitary irreducible representations in terms of covariant, infinite-component fields on curved momentum space satisfying algebraic spin and mass constraints. Adapting and applying the method of group Fourier transforms, we obtain covariant fields on (2+1)-dimensional Minkowski space which necessarily depend on an additional internal and circular dimension. The momentum space constraints turn into differential or exponentiated differential operators, and the group Fourier transform induces a star product on Minkowski space and the internal space which is essentially a version of Rieffel's deformation quantisation via convolution.


Introduction
The possibility of anyonic statistics in two spatial dimensions lies at the root of the peculiarity and intricacy of planar phenomena in quantum physics, ranging from the quantum Hall effect to potential uses of anyons in topological quantum computing [1]. The mathematical origin of anyonic statistics is the infinite connectedness of the planar rotation group SO(2) which is topologically a circle. The goal of this paper, in brief, is to explore the consequences of this fact for quantum gravity in 2+1 dimensions, where the infinite connectedness is doubled and appears in both momentum space and the rotation group.
Our strategy in pursuing this goal is to extend and generalise the method developed in [2,3], which proceeds from a definition of the symmetry algebra, via a covariant formulation of its irreducible unitary representations (UIRs) in momentum space to, finally, covariant fields in spacetime obeying differential or finite-difference equations. One of the upshots of our work is a construction of non-commutative plane waves for gravitational anyons via a group Fourier transform. While this transform arose in relatively recent literature in quantum gravity [4,5,6,7] we note that it is essentially an example and extension of Rieffel's deformation quantisation [8].
Anyonic behaviour occurs in both non-relativistic and relativistic physics, and for the same topological reason. The proper and orthochronous Lorentz group L +↑ 3 in 2+1 dimensions retracts to SO (2), and is therefore infinitely connected. Its universal cover, which cannot be realised as a matrix group, governs the properties of relativistic anyons. As we shall review, the double cover of L +↑ 3 is the matrix group SU (1,1) or, equivalently, SL(2, R). In this paper, we write the universal cover as SU (1,1).
In the spirit of Wigner's classification of particles [9], relativistic anyons are classified by the UIRs of the universal cover of the (proper, orthochronous) Poincaré group in 2+1 dimensions, which is the semidirect product of SU (1,1) with the group of spacetime translations. It is natural to identify the latter with the dual of Lie algebra of SU (1,1). Then the universal cover of the Poincaré group is SU(1, 1) su * (1, 1), with the former acting on the latter by the co-adjoint action. While the UIRs of the Poincaré group in 2+1 dimensions are labelled by a real mass parameter and an integer spin parameter, the corresponding mass and spin parameters for the universal cover both take arbitrary real values [10]. In other words, going to the universal cover puts mass and spin on a more equal footing.
The canonical construction of the UIRs of the Poincaré group in 2+1 dimensions leads to states being realised as functions on momentum space, obeying constraints [11]. Writing these constraints in a Lorentz-covariant way, and Fourier transforming leads to standard wave equations of relativistic physics like the Klein-Gordon or Dirac equation. Relativistic wave equations for anyons have also been constructed, but for spins which are not half-integers they require infinite-component wave functions, and the derivation of the equations is not entirely straightforward [12,13].
Here, we are interested in a deformation of the universal cover of the Poincaré group to a quantum group which arises in (2+1)-dimensional quantum gravity. In 2+1 dimensions, there are no propagating gravitational degrees of freedom, and the phase space of gravity interacting with a finite number of particles and in a universe where spatial slices are either compact or accompanied by suitable boundary conditions at spatial infinity is finite-dimensional. In those cases where the resulting phase space could be quantised, the Hilbert space of the quantum theory can naturally be constructed out of unitary representations of the quantum double of L +↑ 3 or one of its covers [14,15,16]. In a sense that can be made precise, this double is a deformation of the Poincaré group in 2+1 dimensions [17,18], with the linear momenta su * (1, 1) (the generators of translations) being replaced by functions on L +↑ 3 or one of its covers. In the quantum double of L +↑ 3 , Lorentz transformations and translation are implemented via Hopf algebras which are in duality, namely the the group algebra of L +↑ 3 and the dual algebra of functions on L +↑ 3 . The quantum double is a ribbon Hopf algebra whose R-matrix can be given explicitly. The unitary irreducible representations describing massive particles are labelled by an integer spin and a mass parameter taking values on a circle.
In analogy with the treatment of the Poincaré group, one could define the universal cover of the double of L +↑ 3 by replacing the group algebra of the Lorentz group with the group algebra of the universal cover SU (1,1). There are indications that this is required when applying the quantum double to quantum gravity in 2+1 dimensions. In particular, several independent arguments lead to the conclusion that, in (2+1)-dimensional gravity, the spin s is quantised in units which depends on its mass m according to where n ∈ Z, µ = 8πmG and G is Newton's gravitational constant, see [19,18]. Covering the Lorentz transformations without changing the momentum algebra would destroy the duality between the two. It is therefore more natural to also consider a universal covering of the momentum algebra, i.e., to identify the momentum algebra with the function algebra on SU (1,1). The resulting quantum double of the universal cover of the Lorentz group, called Lorentz double in [18], is a ribbon-Hopf algebra and has UIRs describing massive particles which are labelled by a spin parameter s and a mass parameter µ for which (1.1) makes sense.
In this paper, we consider the Lorentz double and derive a new formulation of its UIRs in terms of infinite-component functions on momentum space SU(1, 1) obeying Lorentz-covariant constraints. We extend and use the notion of group Fourier transforms [4,5,6,7] to derive covariant wave equations on Minkowski space equipped with a -product.
Our method extends earlier work in [3] where analogous relativistic wave equations for massive particles were obtained from the UIRs of the quantum double of the Lorentz group. The transition to the universal cover poses two separate challenges. Our wave functions in momentum space now live on SU(1, 1), and they take values in the infinite-dimensional UIRs of SU(1, 1) called the discrete series. The change in momentum space leads to a particularly natural version of the group Fourier transform, essentially because group-valued momenta can be parametrised bijectively via the exponential map and one additional integer label. In order to include the integer in our Fourier transform we are forced to introduce a dual circle on the spacetime side. The emergence of a compact additional dimension is a remarkable and intriguing aspect of our construction.
Fourier transforming the algebraic spin and mass constraints from momentum space to Minkowski space produces equations on non-commutative Minkowski space which involve either differential operators or the exponential of a first-order differential operator. We end the paper with a short discussion of these non-commutative wave equations for gravitational anyons, leaving a detailed study for future work.
The paper is organised as follows. In Sect. 2, we introduce our notation and review the definition and parametrisation of the universal cover SU(1, 1) as well as the discrete series UIRs. We also revisit the UIRs of the Poincaré group and briefly summarise the covariantisation of the UIRs and their Fourier transform, following [3]. In Sect. 3, we generalise the covariantisation procedure to the universal cover of the Poincaré group, thus obtaining wave equations for infinite-component anyonic wave functions. Our version of these equations and our derivation of them appear to be new. Sect. 4 extends the analysis to the Lorentz double. We derive a Lorentz-covariant form of the UIRs, and point out that one of the defining constraints, called the spin constraint, can be expressed succinctly in terms of the ribbon element of the Lorentz double. The group Fourier transform on SU(1, 1) requires a parametrisation of this group via the exponential map, and we discuss this in some detail. We use the Fourier transform to derive non-commutative wave equations, and then use the short final Sect. 5 to discuss our results and to point out avenues for further research.

Poincaré symmetry and massive particles in 2+1 dimensions
We review the symmetry group of (2+1)-dimensional Minkowski space: its Lie algebra, its various covering groups and their representation theory. Unfortunately there is no single book or paper which covers these topics in conventions which are convenient of our purposes. We therefore adopt a mixture of the conventions in the papers [18] and [3] and the book [20], which are key references for us.

Minkowski space and the double cover of the Poincaré group
We denote (2 + 1) dimensional Minkowski space by R 2,1 , with the convention that the Minkowski metric is mostly minus. Vectors in R 2,1 will be denoted by x = (x 0 , x 1 , x 2 ), with Latin indices for components and the inner product given by (2.1) The group of linear transformations that leave η invariant is the Lorentz group L 3 = O(2, 1). This group has four connected components, but we are mainly interested in the component connected to the identity, i.e., the subgroup of proper orthochronous Lorentz transformations, denoted L +↑ 3 . The group of affine transformations that leave the Minkowski metric invariant is the semi-direct product L 3 R 3 of the Lorentz group with the abelian group of translations. We call its identity component Poincaré group and denote it as (2. 2) The Lie algebra p 3 of the Poincaré group is spanned by rotation and boost generators J 0 , J 1 , J 2 , and time and space translation generators P 0 , P 1 , P 2 . They can be chosen so that the commutators are Here and in the following abc is the totally antisymmetric tensor with 012 = 1, and indices are raised and lowered with the Minkowski metric η = diag(1, −1, −1). Note that this means in particular that −J 0 is the generator of mathematically positive rotations in momentum space. This affects our conventions for the sign of the spin later in this paper. In quantum mechanics, classical symmetries described by a Lie group G are implemented by projective representations, which, in the case of the Lorentz group, may equivalently be described by unitary representations of the universal covering group. In the case of relativistic symmetries in 3+1 dimensions the universal cover of the Lorentz group is its double cover and is isomorphic to SL(2, C). In 2+1 dimensions the double cover of L +↑ 3 is isomorphic to SL(2, R) or, equivalently, SU(1, 1), but this is not the universal cover. Therefore a choice has to be made as to which covering group one should implement in the quantum theory. The paper [3], to which we will refer frequently for details, works with the double cover in the realisation SL(2, R). We will consider the universal cover here. For our purposes it is more convenient to first consider the double cover SU(1, 1) because it allows for an easy transition to the universal cover. In order to translate results from [3], the reader will need to apply the unitary matrix which conjugates SL(2, R) into SU(1, 1) within SL(2, C), i.e., h −1 SL(2, R)h = SU(1, 1). We use the following basis of the Lie algebra su(1, 1) which are normalised to have the commutation relations of the Lorentz part of (2.3): The basis t a , a = 0, 1, 2, of sl(2, R) used in [3] is related to our basis of su(1, 1) via s a = h −1 t a h. An arbitrary matrix M ∈ SU(1, 1) can be parametrised in terms of two complex numbers a, b which satisfy |a| 2 − |b| 2 = 1 via However, a more convenient parametrisation for the extension to the universal cover is obtained by introducing an angular coordinate ω ∈ [0, 4π) and a complex number γ = b/a of modulus |γ| < 1 so that a = 1 (2.9) We will need to understand the conjugacy classes of SU(1, 1) for various applications in this paper. These are obtained from the well-known conjugacy classes of SL(2, R) (see [3], for example) by conjugation with h and therefore determined by the trace (which, for determinant one, fixes the eigenvalues up to ordering) plus additional data. Elements u ∈ SU(1, 1) with absolute value of the trace less than 2 are called elliptic elements. They are conjugate to rotations of the form (2.10) Each value of α labels one conjugacy class (so there are two conjugacy classes for each value of the trace). Elements with absolute value of the trace equal to 2 include ±id (forming a conjugacy class each) and parabolic elements, which are conjugate to Each choice of sign on the diagonal and each value of ζ labels one conjugacy class. Element with absolute value of the trace greater than two are called hyperbolic. They are conjugate to Each choice of sign and each value of ξ determines one conjugacy class (negative values are not needed since conjugation with σ 3 ∈ SU(1, 1) flips the sign). The double cover of the Poincaré group is but for our purposes it is natural to identify the translation subgroup with the vector space su(1, 1) * , and to viewP 3 asP 3 SU(1, 1) su(1, 1) * , (2.14) with SU(1, 1) acting on translations via the co-adjoint action Ad * . More precisely, the product of elements (g 1 , a 1 ), (g 2 , a 2 ) ∈P 3 in the conventions of [3,2] is (g 1 , a 1 )(g 2 , a 2 ) = (g 1 g 2 , Ad * g 2 a 1 + a 2 ). (2.15) The motivation for the interpretation (2.14) of the double cover of the Poincaré group comes from the formulation of 3d gravity as a Chern-Simons theory with the Poincaré group as a gauge group. This requires an invariant and non-degenerate pairing on p 3 . The, up to scale, a unique such pairing is the dual pairing between the Lorentz generators and the translation generators, i.e., the canonical pairing on the Lie algebra As remarked in [3] and for the Euclidean case in [2], the dual basis of the translation generators P a (now viewed as a basis of su(1, 1) * ) may have a different normalisation to the basis s a which is fixed by the commutation relations (2.5) . Adapting the conventions of [2,3], and working with the generators s a for su(1, 1), we write the pairing in our basis as where the scale λ is a constant of dimension inverse mass. In the context of 2+1 gravity it is related to Newton's gravitational constant G via λ = 8πG.
With the usual identification of momentum space as the dual of spacetime translations, momenta p in 2+1 dimensions now naturally live in (su(1, 1) * ) * su(1, 1). For consistency with (2.17) we set P * a = −λs a , (2.18) so that a general element p of momentum space may be expressed as The reason for inserting a minus sign here is that −s 0 generates mathematically positive rotation, as mentioned after (2.3). While the pairing between Lorentz and translation generators is canonical (up to scale), the inner product between two momenta p and q in su(1, 1) requires the trace. We define the inner product as This is invariant under the (adjoint) action of SU(1, 1). Using the convention to mark coordinate vectors by arrows, we write p · q = p a q a , (2.21) and occasionally also p · s = p a s a .

(2.22)
We also require a notation for the absolute value of the norm of p. We write this as As pointed out in the Introduction, SU(1, 1) and its universal cover both play two, mutually dual roles in this paper as Lorentz symmetry and as curved momentum space. In the latter context we will require one further parametrisation of SU(1, 1), namely the one obtained via the exponential map. By 'conjugating' the detailed discussion of the corresponding parametrisation of SL(2, R) in [3] with (2.4), one checks that any element u ∈ SU(1, 1) can, up to a sign, be written as the exponential of the Lie-algebra valued momentum p, i.e., u = ± exp(p). (2.24) We will revisit this fact and its geometrical interpretation in Sect. 4. In that context we will also need the following explicit form of the exponential: where we introduced the function as well as the generalised unit-vectorp The functions s and c satisfy a generalised version of the Pythagorean formula: (2.28)

The universal cover the Lorentz group and the discrete series representation
In this paper we shall consider anyonic particles and for this we will need to work with the universal cover of the Poincaré group which we denote by P ∞ 3 : where SU(1, 1) is the universal cover of SU(1, 1). The group SU(1, 1) is not a matrix group, but, as we will explain in some detail below, its elements are conveniently parametrised by a real number ω and complex number γ of modulus less than 1. Thus we write elements of SU(1, 1) as pairs (ω, γ) and elements of P ∞ 3 as pairs ((ω, γ), a), with a ∈ su(1, 1) * , so that the product is The universal cover of SU(1, 1) S 1 ×D, denoted SU(1, 1), is diffeomorphic to the product R×D, where the circle factor S 1 has been covered by the real line. We extend our parametrisation (2.9) of SU(1, 1) to the universal cover by simply allowing the angular variable ω to take values in R. We then identify elements of SU(1, 1) with pairs (ω, γ) ∈ R × D. The product (ω 1 , γ 1 )(ω 2 , γ 2 ) is the element (ω, γ) given by an analytic extension of the formulae one obtains when writing the matrix product of elements of the form (2.9) in terms of the parameters 1 : Here the logarithms of the form ln(1 + w) are defined in terms of the usual (Mercator) power series, which returns the principal value of ln(1 + w). With γ 1 and γ 2 inside the unit disk, this means in particular We also note that In terms of the coordinates (ω, γ), the canonical projection where it is clear from (2.9) that the right hand side only depends on ω mod 4π. This is a homomorphism whose kernel is the central subgroup generated by the element (4π, 0). It is, however, convenient to introduce a special name for rotations by 2π. With we have π(Ω) = −id and ker π = {Ω 2n |n ∈ Z}. (2.37) When working with the Lie algebra of SU(1, 1) we will continue to use the notation s a , a = 0, 1, 2, for the generators, i.e., we identify the Lie algebra of SU(1, 1) with its image under the differential of the projection (2.34). However, the exponential of these generators SU(1, 1) cannot be computed via matrix exponentials; instead one has to use the differential geometric definition in terms of the geodesic flow with respect to the bi-invariant (Lorentzian) metric on SU(1, 1). We will need to exponentiate timelike, lightlike and spacelike generators at various points in this paper, and therefore note the relevant expressions here. Since the geometric definition coincides with the matrix exponential for SU(1, 1), the results are essentially analytic continuations of the expressions for SU(1, 1) in the variable ω. With the notation for the exponential maps, we note exponentials of typical timelike, spacelike and lightlike elements in the Lie algebra. They give rise to, respectively, elliptic, hyperbolic and parabolic elements in the group, as exhibited in (2.10), (2.11) and (2.12).
Bearing in mind the comment made after (2.3), we note in particular that the adjoint action of (α, 0) on momentum space induces a mathematically positive rotation.
The unitary irreducible representations (UIRs) of SU(1, 1) have been classified into a number of infinite families and are given in detail in [20] and also [10]. The particular class that is used to model anyonic particles, [13], is called the discrete series. We briefly review these, using [20] as a main reference but adapting notation used in [10]. In particular, we label the UIRs in the discrete series by l ∈ R + and a sign.
The carrier spaces for the discrete series are given by the space of suitably completed holomorphic (+) or anti-holomorphic (−) functions on the open unit disk. These spaces will be denoted H l± or simply H when no confusion can arise. The completion is with respect to the appropriate Hilbert space inner product given below. For the family (l+), the inner product between two holomorphic functions f = n=0 α n z n and g = n=0 β n z n is where Γ is the Gamma function. The inner product above may be given an integral expression for the case l > 1 2 as For the representations labelled by l− the inner products is as above except that the functions f and g are anti-holomorphic and therefore given as power series of the form f = n=0 α nz n and g = n=0 β nz n .
In order to express the action of SU(1, 1) on H for these representations we recall the projection map (2.35) and (2.9), and combine it with a right action of SU(1, 1) on the open unit disk: The action of SU(1, 1) on the carrier space H l+ is The above action simplifies in the case l ∈ 1 2 N, where one recovers a genuine representation of the group SU(1, 1). In this case, one can use (2.8) to write A canonical choice of basis in H l+ is given by the orthonormal functions and for H l− we have the basis (2.48) The state for n = 0 in both (l, +) and (l, −) is the constant function. It plays an important role in constructing a covariant descriptions of UIRs, so we introduce the notation for the map z → 1.
In these representations the infinitesimal generators of the Lie algebra, denoted d l± (s a ), can be realised as differential operators acting on the carrier space H. Starting with the usual definition we compute for the positive discrete series and for the negative series For later use, we note that the linear combination s a p a for an arbitrary vector p acts according to The vector fields appearing in the action of the s a p a have a natural geometrical interpretation which is familiar in the context of the mini-twistor correspondence between points in Euclidean 3-space and the set of all the lines through that point. We explain briefly how his point of view fits into our Lorentzian setting. We can parametrise the set of all timelike lines in 2+1 dimensional Minkowski space in terms of a timelike vector q, normalised so that q 2 = 1 and giving the direction of the line, and a vector k which lies on the line and which can be chosen to satisfy k · q = 0 without loss of generality. Geometrically, q lies on the two-sheeted hyperboloid, and k lies in the tangent space at q.
In terms of an orthonormal basis e 0 , e 1 , e 2 of Minkowski space, and the complex linear combination e = e 1 + i e 2 , we can parametrise q in terms of a complex variable z in the unit disk via q = 1 1 − |z| 2 (1 + |z| 2 ) e 0 + z¯ e +z e , and the tangent vector k in terms of a complex number w via Then one checks that the point p = p 0 e 0 + p 2 e 1 + p 1 e 2 lies on the line through k and in the direction q if and only if In other words, the derivatives appearing in (2.53) and (2.54) are precisely the holomorphic and anti-holomorphic part of the tangent vector which characterises a line containing p and in the direction q determined by z.

MassiveP 3 representations
There are various ways of getting from the UIRs of the Poincaré group to the covariant wave equations of relativistic physics. In [2,3], a procedure was developed which is also effective when the Poincaré group is deformed to the quantum double of the Lorentz group or one of its covers. We briefly review the method here in a convenient form for extension to the anyonic case. However, relative to [3] we change the sign convention for mass and spin to agree with the one used in [18]. Using the isomorphismP 3 SU(1, 1) su(1, 1) * in (2.14), UIRs ofP 3 may be classified by the adjoint orbits of SU(1, 1) in momentum space su(1, 1) together with an UIR of associated stabiliser groups. For massive particles, the former encodes the mass, and the latter its spin. In the case of a particle of mass m = 0, we denote the adjoint orbit by O T m . It elements are obtained by boosting the representative momentum −λms 0 (which generates a mathematically positive rotation) to obtain the typical element The coordinate vector p satisfies p 2 = m 2 and the sign constraint mp 0 > 0 so that p lies in the p 0 > 0 half space for positive m, and in the p 0 < 0 half space for negative m. Thus we have two equivalent characterisations of the adjoint orbit corresponding to massive particles: Other orbits are obtained by choosing a different representative elements, namely ±(s 0 + s 1 ) for the massless representation, ξs 1 for tachyons and 0 for the vacuum representations. The adjoint orbits in momentum space for the massive timelike, lightlike and tachyonic cases are shown in Fig. 1. The associated stabiliser group N T of O T m is given by The UIRs of U (1) are one-dimensional and labelled by s ∈ 1 2 Z in our conventions. The carrier space of the UIRs ofP 3 for massive particles with spin s can be given in two equivalent ways. Either one considers functions on SU(1, 1) which satisfy an equivariance condition or sections of associated vector bundles over the homogeneous space SU(1, 1)/N T O T m . We focus on the former method here but, refer the reader to [18] for a discussion of their equivalence in the context of 3d gravity and to [21] for a general reference. Adopting the conventions of [18], we define the carrier space as where dν is the invariant measure on the coset SU(1, 1)/N T . The action of an element (g, a) ∈P 3 on ψ ∈ V ms is (π eq ms (g, a)ψ) where, in accordance with (2.14), a is interpreted as an element of su(1, 1) * , and ·, · is the pairing between elements of su(1, 1) * and su(1, 1) introduced and discussed in Sect. 2.1. We have attached the superscript 'eq' to distinguish this equivariant formulation from the later covariant version.

Covariant field representations
In field theory we do not usually work with the space of equivariant functions as just described. Instead we use covariant fields φ : where V is a carrier space for a (usually finite dimensional) representation of the Lorentz group.
In general such fields do not form irreducible representations of the Poincaré group and, as a result, additional constraints need to be imposed to achieve this. For fields defined on momentum space these constraints are algebraic, but following Fourier transform they yield the familiar wave equations for a field of definite spin. Following [3] for the method, but changing the sign convention to agree with [18], we define a covariant fieldφ see [3] for details.
To check thatφ(p) is well-defined, one needs to show that but this is true because the phase picked up by ψ under the action of an element n of the stabiliser is precisely cancelled by the action of ρ |s| (n) on the state ||s|, −s . This construction works for massive particles since ρ |s| (s 0 ) has imaginary eigenvalues. However, this is not the case for the momentum representatives on massless and tachyonic orbits and hence the above procedure is limited to particles with timelike momentum.
Adapting the results in [3] to our conventions, the covariant fieldφ necessarily satisfies the condition iρ |s| (s a )p a − ms φ (p) = 0, (2.65) which we call the spin constraint. In order to carry out the envisaged Fourier transform, we would like to extendφ to a function on all of the linear momentum space su(1, 1). However, we then need to impose the mass constraint p 2 = m 2 and the sign constraint mp 0 > 0 to ensure thatφ has support on the orbit O T m . The sign constraint makes sense when the mass constraint is enforced since m = 0 by assumption and therefore (p 0 ) 2 > 0. To restrict the support ofφ to the 'forward' mass shell when m > 0 and to the 'backward' mass shell when m < 0, we use the Heaviside function Θ and define the carrier space In the corresponding definition in [3], the sign constraint was not included, but for us this inclusion is convenient because we directly obtain a UIR ofP 3 without adding further conditions. The action of (g, a) ∈P 3 on this space is given by (π co (g, a)φ)(p) = exp(i a, Ad g −1 p )ρ |s| (g)φ(Ad g −1 p), (2.67) which we call the covariant formulation.
In [3] it is also shown that the above covariant fields produce UIRs ofP 3 for the familiar cases of spin s = 0, 1 2 , 1 and that the mass constraint for spin zero and spin constraints for s = 1 2 and s = 1 produce the momentum space versions of the Klein-Gordon equation, Dirac equation and of field equations which square to the Proca equation 2 . We refer the reader to [3] for details of the Fourier transform of the spin constraints to relativistic field equations in spacetime. We now turn to the anyonic case, where we will discuss both the covariant formulation of the UIRs and the Fourier transform.

Anyonic wave equations
Anyons are quantum particles with fractional spin which occur in systems confined to two spatial dimensions. In the relativistic case, the theoretical possibility of anyonic particles is a consequence of the infinite connectedness of the Lorentz group L +↑ 3 . To describe relativistic anyons we need to consider the representation theory of the universal cover of the Poincaré group P ∞ 3 . The UIRs are classified in [10] using the method of induced representations. The action of (ω, γ) ∈ SU(1, 1) on momentum space is the adjoint action Ad (ω,γ) . The stabiliser group for a massive particle, with standard momentum −λms 0 , is thereforẽ The one-dimensional UIRs of the stabiliser are labelled by s ∈ R which represents the spin of the massive particle. With our results (2.39) for the exponential map into SU(1, 1) and using (2.9), we note that (ω, γ) exp(−αs 0 ) = (ω + α, γ).
Thus, we have the following equivariant description of the carrier space: The action of ((ω, γ), a) ∈ P ∞ 3 on the space V A ms is We now follow the procedure of the previous section to construct anyonic covariant fields.
Definition 3.1 (Anyonic Covariant Field). The anyonic covariant fieldφ ± associated to an equivariant field ψ ∈ V A ms is the mapφ
Thus we should useφ + to describe positive spin particles andφ − for negative spin. Proof. One needs to check that this definition is independent of the choice of (ω, γ), i.e., we require Expanding the right hand side and using the equivariance of ψ, and the action of the stabiliser subgroup elements in the representations D l± on the vacuum state one obtains Hence we obtain invariance if l − s = 0, as claimed. An analogous argument applied toφ − shows that l + s = 0 is required in that case.
The anyonic covariant field carries a unitary representation of the Poincaré group, which we again denote π co : Without further condition, this representation is not irreducible. To achieve irreducibility, we need anyonic versions of the spin, mass and sign constraints. where d l± is the Lie algebra representation associated to the discrete series representation D l± via (2.50), with s = l for the positive series and s = −l for the negative series.
Note that, in components and with the sign convention (2.56), the spin constraint takes the form (id l± (s a )p a − ms)φ ± (p) = 0, (3.12) which has the same form as the finite-component version (2.65).
Again we can construct UIRs of P ∞ 3 in terms of covariant fields subject to the mass, spin and sign constraints. In analogy to (2.66), we define where dν is the invariant measure on the hyperboloid O T m , and (·, ·) l is the inner product (2.40) on H l+ , with an analogous expression for fields taking values in H l− . We now show that the representations V A ms and W A ms are isomorphic. This implies that the covariant fields subject to the mass, spin and sign constraints form UIRs of the universal cover P ∞ 3 of the Poincaré group. Theorem 3.4 (Irreducibility of the carrier space W A ms ). The covariant representation π co ms of P ∞ 3 on W A ms defined in (3.9) is unitarily equivalent to the equivariant representation π eq ms on V A ms defined in (3.4). In particular, it is therefore irreducible.
Proof. We claim that the following maps are intertwiners: where, as before, (ω, γ) ∈ SU(1, 1) is chosen so that p = −λmAd (ω,γ) (s 0 ) and s = l for the positive series and s = −l for the negative series. We have already shown that these maps are well-defined, and that the image has support entirely on the orbit O T m , so that the mass and sign constraints are satisfied.
The maps L ± are injective because of the unitarity of D l± . To show that they are surjective, we pickφ ∈ W A ms and construct a preimage. Focusing on D l+ , and noting that Recalling that l = s, comparing with (2.51), and recalling that |0 l is , up to a factor, the unique solution of d l+ (s 0 )f = −ilf , we deduce the proportionality where the proportionality factor ψ may depend on (ω, γ). Moreover, it must have the property ψ(ω + α, γ) = e −iαs ψ(ω, γ), (3.19) to ensure independence of the choice of (ω, γ) for given p, since Thus ψ ∈ V A ms and L + (ψ) =φ, as required to show that L + is surjective. An analogous argument for L − shows that both L ± are bijections.
The intertwining property is equivalent to commutativity of the diagram for ((ω, γ), a) ∈ P ∞ 3 . This is a straightforward calculation based upon the maps L ± , and the actions given in (3.4) and (3.9).
The unitarity of L ± follows from the unitarity of D l± , since Finally, we Fourier transform the spin constraint in the form (3.12) to obtain the anyonic wave equation promised in the title of this section. Since the field φ lives on the Lie algebra su(1, 1), its Fourier transform should live on su(1, 1) * , i.e., the Fourier transform is a map L 2 (su(1, 1), H l± ) → L 2 (su(1, 1) * , H l± ). (3.23) Using the terminology introduced after equation (2.16), we expand x ∈ su(1, 1) * and p ∈ su(1, 1) as x = x a P a , p = −λp a s a .

(3.24)
Then, with the pairing given in (2.17), we define the Fourier transform ofφ ∈ W A ms by φ as The field φ ± satisfies the Klein-Gordon equation by virtue of the mass constraint. The spin constraint implies the following first order equation: where we wrote ∂ a = ∂/∂x a . Using the explicit forms (2.53) and (2.54) of d l± with l = s for the positive series and l = −s for the negative series, and with the abbreviations the equation (3.27) can also be written as and The anyonic relativistic wave equation we have constructed for arbitrary spin s ∈ R can be viewed in two ways: either as a partial differential equation in Minkowski space for a field taking values in any infinite-dimensional Hilbert space, as suggested by the formulation (3.27), or as a partial differential equation for a field on the product of Minkowski space and the hyperbolic disk, as emphasised in the formulation (3.29) and (3.30).
It is worth stressing that, for s ∈ 1 2 N, our anyonic equation (

The Lorentz double and its representations
We now extend and apply our method for deriving wave equations from Lorentz covariant UIRs of the Poincaré group to a deformation of the Poincaré symmetry to the quantum double of the universal cover of the Lorentz group, or Lorentz double for short. As reviewed in our Introduction, this is motivated by results from the study of 3d gravity and a general interest in understanding possible quantum deformations of standard wave equations. Referring to [22,23] for reviews, we sum up evidence for the emergence of quantum doubles in the quantisation of 3d gravity. Deformation of Poincaré symmetry: As explained in [17] and [18] for the, respectively, Euclidean and Lorentzian case, the quantum double of the rotation and Lorentz group is a deformation of the group algebra of, respectively, the Euclidean and Poincaré group. Gravitational scattering: The R-matrix of the Lorentz double can be used to derive a universal scattering cross section for massive particles with spin by treating gravitational scattering in 2+1 dimensions as a non-abelian Aharonov-Bohm scattering process [18]. This universal scattering cross section agrees with previously computed special cases, like the quantum scattering of a light spin 1/2 particle on the conical spacetime generated by a heavy massive particle, in suitable limits -see [24,25]. Combinatorial quantisation: The quantum double of the Lorentz group arises naturally in the combinatorial quantisation of the Chern-Simons formulation of 3d gravity with vanishing cosmological constant. The classical limit of the quantum R-matrix is a classical r-matrix which is compatible with the non-degenerate bilinear symmetric and invariant pairing used in the Chern-Simons action [17,18], and the Hilbert space of the quantised theory can be constructed from unitary representations of the Lorentz double [14,15]. Independent derivations: Quantum doubles also emerges in approaches to 3d quantum gravity which do not rely on the combinatorial quantisation programme. In [16] the quantum double is shown to play the role of quantum symmetry in 3d loop quantum gravity. In [4] it appears in a path integral approach to 3d quantum gravity.
In analogy with our treatment of the Poincaré group in 2+1 dimensions, we consider the double cover SU(1, 1) and the universal coverSU(1, 1) of the identity component of the Lorentz group. Our goal is to obtain a deformation of the wave equation by covariantising and then Fourier transforming, in a suitable sense, the UIRs of the quantum double ofSU (1,1). This extends the results obtained in [3] for the double cover SU(1, 1). As we shall see, the universal cover is technically more involved but also conceptually more interesting.
The quantum double of a Lie group can be defined in several ways. We follow [26,27] with the conventions used in [3,2]. In this approach we view the quantum double D(G) as the Hopf algebra which, as a vector space, is the space of continuous complex valued functions C(G × G). In order to exhibit the full Hopf algebra structure we need to adjoin singular δ-distributions.
The Hopf algebra structure for D(G) with product •, co-product ∆, unit 1, co-unit , antipode S, * -structure and ribbon element c is then as follows: where we write dg for the left Haar measure on the group.
The representation theory of the double is given in [27]. In the case of D (SU(1, 1)), the UIRs are classified by conjugacy classes in SU(1, 1) and UIRs of associated stabiliser subgroups. This should be viewed as a deformation of the discussion ofP 3 there we had adjoint orbits in the linear momentum space. In the gravitational case, the group itself is interpreted as momentum space and orbits are conjugacy classes. Here we encounter the idea of curved momentum space discussed in the outline.
As we are interested in the case of massive particles we will only give the analogue of the massive representations ofP 3 , and refer to [27] and [3] for the complete list. By definition, elements of SU(1, 1) have eigenvalues which multiply to 1. In the case where these eigenvalues are complex conjugates, one has two disjoint families of elliptic conjugacy classes labelled by an angle θ: The stabiliser subgroup of the representative element exp(−θs 0 ) in E(θ) is In (2+1)-dimensional gravity, the variable θ parametrising the conjugacy classes gives the mass of a particle in units of the Planck mass, or in our convention θ = λm. Geometrically, it gives the deficit (or surplus) angle of the conical spatial geometry surrounding the particle's worldline.
The carrier spaces of UIRs of D (SU(1, 1)) can, as with the Poincaré group, be given in terms of functions on SU(1, 1) subject to an equivariance condition. The equivariance condition only depends upon the stabiliser subgroup, and in fact the carrier space is undeformed. The action of D(SU(1, 1)) on V ms is a deformed version of (2.59) and is given by where F ∈ D(SU(1, 1)) and g, v ∈ SU(1, 1). To relate this formula to the representation of the Poincaré group, it is useful to consider singular elements 1)). (4.5) Its action on V ms now more closely resembles that of (h, a) ∈P 3 in the UIRs π eq ms : with f generalising the function exp(i a, · ). In [3], local covariant fields are introduced for D (SU(1, 1)) and deformed momentum space (spin) constraints are derived. After Fourier transform these constraints are interpreted as deformed relativistic wave equations. In [3] this is explicitly done for particles of spin s = 0, 1 2 and 1. We will not review these results here, but derive the analogous for the anyonic case, where we need to consider the quantum double D ( SU(1, 1)). The UIRs are discussed in [18]. We only recall the UIRs describing massive particles at this point, though we will need all conjugacy classes when we consider the Fourier transform in the next section. (4.7) Elements in this class project to elliptic elements in SU(1, 1) and our notation is chosen to reflect this. The interpretation of the unbounded parameter µ in terms of 3d gravity is something we will discuss in detail in Sect. 4.3. For now we again identify it with the mass in Planck units, i.e., µ = λm, (4.8) but note that in the decomposition µ = µ 0 + 2πn, n ∈ Z, µ 0 ∈ (0, 2π), (4.9) only the 'fractional part' µ 0 has a classical geometrical interpretation as a deficit angle. The integer parameter n = int µ 2π (4.10) would affect gravitational Aharonov-Bohm scattering, as mentioned in the Introduction, but has no clear classical meaning. In that sense, it is a 'purely quantum' aspect of the particle. We will need a fairly detailed understanding of the elliptic conjugacy classes E(µ) later in this paper, so we note that a generic element can be written without loss of generality by choosing v = (0, β), β ∈ D, so that (ω, γ) = (0, β)(µ, 0)(0, −β), (4.11) and therefore, using (2.31), It is an elementary exercise to check that, if µ 0 < π, then ω < µ + π, and if µ 0 > π then ω < µ + (2π − µ 0 ). It follows that 13) and this will be useful later. The stabiliser subgroup of the representative element (µ, 0) is given bỹ The stabiliser subgroup is the same as for UIRs of P ∞ 3 describing massive particles, and its UIRs are labelled by a real-valued spin s.
The carrier space of UIRs labelled by the mass parameter m and spin s is V A ms as defined in (3.3). Elements F of the double D ( SU(1, 1)) act on ψ ∈ V A ms according to As in the previous section, we now use the equivariant UIRs to construct a covariant formulation. Field). The deformed anyonic covariant fieldφ ± associated to an equivariant field ψ ∈ V A ms is the map
The covariant fieldsφ ± are well-defined.
Proof. One needs to check that the definition is independent of the choice of v, i.e., that This follows by the calculation (3.8) carried out for the universal cover of the Poincaré group.
The anyonic covariant field carries a unitary representation of D( SU(1, 1)) which we denote Π co : Without further condition, this representation is not irreducible. We need gravitised, anyonic versions of the spin, mass and sign constraints. This constraint can be expressed in terms of the ribbon element as (4.21) Proof. Let u = v(λm, 0)v −1 where v ∈ SU(1, 1). Then, focusing on the positive series for simplicity, we compute Using the action Π co ms given in (4.19), we also compute (Π co ms (c)φ + )(u) = SU(1,1) thus confirming the second claim. The calculation for φ − is entirely analogous.

(4.24)
This condition only sees the fractional part in the decomposition (4.9) of µ = λm. To ensure that u ∈ E(λm) we also need to impose the condition (4.13). Writing u = (ω u , γ u ) this reads This is an analogue of the sign constraint discussed in the representation theory of P ∞ 3 , but resolves an infinite instead of a two-fold degeneracy. We thus arrive at the following carrier space for the anyonic covariant representation Π co of the double D( SU(1, 1)): where we choose the upper sign for s > 0 and the lower sign for s < 0.
Theorem 4.4 (Irreducibility of the carrier space W GA ms ). The covariant representation Π co ms of D ( SU(1, 1)) on W GA ms defined in (4.19)is unitarily equivalent to the equivariant representation Π eq ms on V A ms defined in (4.15). In particular, it is therefore irreducible.
Proof. We claim that the following maps are intertwiners: where (ω, γ) ∈ SU(1, 1) is chosen so that u = (ω, γ)(λm, 0)(ω, γ) −1 . This follows the steps in the proof of Theorem 4.13, but requires replacing each statement for Lie algebras by the corresponding statement for groups. Injectivity of the maps L ± is immediate. To show surjectivity, we write the spin constraint of a given stateφ ∈ W GA ms , s > 0 without loss of generality, as Recalling that l = s, comparing with (2.51), and recalling that |0 l is , up to a factor, the unique solution of D l+ (µ, 0)f = e iµl f , we deduce the proportionality where the proportionality factor ψ may depend on (ω, γ). Moreover, it must have the property ψ(ω + α, γ) = e −iαs ψ(ω, γ), (4.30) to ensure independence of the choice of (ω, γ) for given u. Thus ψ ∈ V A ms .
The intertwining property is equivalent to commutativity of the diagram for F ∈ D ( SU(1, 1)). This is a straightforward calculation based upon the maps L ± , and the actions given in (4.4) and (4.19).

Group Fourier transforms
In order to arrive at the promised spacetime interpretation of the UIRs of the Lorentz double, we need to generalise the Fourier transform (3.23) which we used to describe relativistic anyons. It is worth formulating this problem for a general Lie group G with Lie algebra g. Concentrating for simplicity on complex-valued (rather than Hilbert space valued) functions, the standard Fourier transform (3.23) is a map L 2 (g) → L 2 (g * ). (4.32) However, in order to deal with the 'gravitised' anyons, we require a Fourier transform where the indicates the space has been equipped with a (generally non-commutative) -product. This is precisely the situation considered by Rieffel in [8], where he observed that, if the exponential map can be used to identify the Lie group with the Lie algebra, one can transfer the convolution product of functions on G to functions on g and then, by Fourier transform, to functions on g * . This induces a non-commutative -product on functions on g * which is a strict deformation quantisation of the canonical Poisson structure on g * . This works globally for nilpotent groups, but, as explained in [8], sill makes sense, in an appropriate way, more generally.
Ideas very similar to Rieffel's have, more recently and apparently independently, been considered by a number of authors in the context of quantum gravity [4,5,6,7]. This work has resulted in a general framework called group Fourier transforms. In developing our Fourier transform for gravitised anyons we essentially need to adapt and extend the ideas of Rieffel and the concept of a group Fourier transforms to G = SU(1, 1). We have found it convenient to use the terminology and notation used in the discussion of group Fourier transforms, particularly in [6,7], which we review briefly.
The starting point of the group Fourier transform is the existence of non-commutative plane waves E : G × g * → C, where d is the dimension of G and δ e is the Dirac δ-distribution at the group identity element e with respect to the left Haar measure dg. Such non-commutative plane waves induce a -product on a suitable set of functions on g * (to be specified below) via the group multiplication in G: (4.36) More precisely, given the non-commutative plane waves, one defines where L 2 (su(1, 1) * ) is the image under F in L 2 (su(1, 1) * ), equipped with the -product defined by linear extension of (4.36) and with the inner product imported from L 2 (G). One checks that (4.38) By construction, this Fourier transform intertwines the convolution product on L 2 (G) with the star product on L 2 (su(1, 1) * ). We also define a candidate for an inverse transform via where we emphasise the presence of the -product. It is easy to check that completeness ensures that F • F = id L 2 (G) . However, F • F generally has a non-trivial kernel, see [7]. In [7] it is shown that under certain assumptions, one can find a coordinate map k : G → g on G and a function η : G → C so that, up to a set of measure zero, the plane waves take the form E(u; x) = η(u)e i x,k(u) . (4.40) Our task in the next section is to construct such non-commutative plane waves for SU(1, 1).

Non-commutative waves for SU(1, 1) and anyonic wave equations
Our proposal for a Fourier transform on SU(1, 1) is based on the parametrisation of group elements summarised in the following proposition. Before we enter the proof, we should point out that, for elements in the elliptic conjugacy class E(µ) defined in (4.7), the integer n introduced in the Proposition is the same integer which appears in the decomposition (4.9) of the rotation angle µ. This follows since, for (ω, γ) ∈ E(µ), so that (ω, γ) belongs to the conjugacy class with label µ = µ 0 + 2πn.
In order to establish uniqueness of the decomposition (4.41), consider p, p ∈ su(1, 1) both satisfying the stated assumptions and n, n ∈ Z so that exp(p)Ω n = exp(p )Ω n . (4.46) We need to show p = p and n = n . Projecting into SU(1, 1) we deduce exp(p) = ± exp(p ). (4.47) In particular, exp(p) and exp(p ) must be of the same type, i.e, both must be either elliptic, parabolic or hyperbolic. We first consider the case where either p or p vanishes. If one, say p, did then (4.47) would imply exp(p ) = ±id, but under the restriction on p , this is only possible if the upper sign holds and p = 0, so that n = n follows.
Both parabolic and hyperbolic elements have the property that, if such an element is in the image of the exponential map, its negative is not. For such elements we must therefore have the upper sign in (4.47). Moreover, one checks from the expressions (2.25) that parabolic and hyperbolic elements which are in the image of the exponential map have a unique logarithm, so that we conclude p = p and hence n = n .
Finally, elliptic elements differ from hyperbolic and parabolic elements in that both the element and its negative are in the image of the exponential map, so that we must consider both signs in (4.47). With either sign, that equation shows that exp(p) and exp(p ) commute with each other. Then, the explicit expression (2.25) and 0 < λ| p| < 2π, 0 < λ| p | < 2π, (4.48) imply that p and p must be multiples of each other. By the assumption that both lie in the forward light cone, we can deduce (recalling the sign conventions (2.56)) that p = −λ| p|p · s, p = −λ| p |p · s (4.49) Then (4.47) requires exp(p − p ) = ±id which is only possible if λ| p| and λ| p | are equal or differ by 2π or 4π. The last two possibilities are not compatible with (4.48), and so we deduce p = p and n = n in this case as well.
(b) Selected exponential curves (4.51) with initial tangent vector p timelike (red), lightlike (black) and spacelike (blue). The decomposition (4.41) can be be visualised and illustrated by thinking of SU(1, 1) as an infinite cylinder, with ω plotted along the vertical axis and γ parametrising the horizontal slices. In Fig. 2 we show a vertical cross section of this cylinder and display the conjugacy classes and the exponential curves. A full list of conjugacy classes of SU(1, 1) is given in the appendix of [18]. There are four kinds: single element conjugacy consisting of the elements Ω n , as well as elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic conjugacy classes covering the corresponding classification for SU(1, 1) discussed in Sect. 2. In terms of the decomposition (4.41), they can be described as follows: O n = { exp(p)Ω n ∈ SU(1, 1)|p = 0}, E n µ 0 = { exp(p)Ω n ∈ SU(1, 1)|p 0 > 0, λ| p| = µ 0 , 0 < µ 0 < 2π}, = E(µ 0 + 2πn) P n + = { exp(p)Ω n ∈ SU(1, 1)|p 0 > 0, p 2 = 0}, P n − = { exp(p)Ω n ∈ SU(1, 1)|p 0 < 0, p 2 = 0}, H n ξ = { exp(p)Ω n ∈ SU(1, 1)| p 2 = −ξ 2 < 0}. (4.50) The diagram in Fig. 2a shows schematic sketches of exponential curves of the form where p is a fixed element of su(1, 1), and n ∈ Z. In other words, these are images of the exponential map with chosen initial tangent vector p translated by Ω n . We stress that the cross section we are showing suppresses the three-dimensional nature of these curves. To illustrate this, we show three-dimensional plots of some exponential curves starting at the identity in Fig. 3. Note that the spacelike and lightlike curves approach the boundary of the cylinder, but that the timelike curve winds round the axis of the cylinder, carrying out a complete rotation when ω increases by 2π In order to compute the group Fourier transform we require an expression for the Haar measure on SU(1, 1) in the coordinates (4.41). Using the abbreviations introduced in (2.25), we note that for u = exp(p), the left-invariant Maurer-Cartan form is u −1 du = λd| p|p · s − 2cs dp · s − 2s 2p × dp · s, (4.52) where we use (2.28) and suppressed the argument | p| of the functions c and s for readability. Thus [u −1 du, u −1 du] = 4s 2 dp × dp · s − 4λcs d| p| ∧ (p × dp) · s + 4p 2 λs 2 d| p| ∧ dp · s. (4.53) Thus, multiplying out and using again (2.28), the Haar measure in exponential coordinates comes out as = 6λs 2 dp × dp ·p ∧ d| p|. Away from the set of measure zero where p 2 = 0, we have d 3 p = dp 0 ∧ dp 1 ∧ dp 2 = 1 6 d p × d p · d p = 1 2 | p| 2 dp × dp ·p ∧ d| p|, (4.55) so that, again away from the set where p 2 = 0, Our parametrisation (4.41) of elements in SU(1, 1) requires both an element p ∈ su(1, 1) and an integer n. It is clear that a suitable non-commutative wave cannot depend only on a dual variable x ∈ su(1, 1) * . It also requires an argument which is dual to the integer n. The most natural candidate is an angular coordinate, parametrising a circle S 1 . The necessity of a fourth and circular dimension to describe the spacetime dual to SU(1, 1) is a surprise. We will introduce it and explore its consequences at this point, postponing a discussion to our final section. Definition 4.6. We define non-commutative plane waves for SU(1, 1) as the maps where p ∈ su(1, 1) and n ∈ Z are the parameters determining u via the decomposition (4.41), and ϕ ∈ [0, 2π) is an angular coordinate on the circle S 1 .
We need to check that the non-commutative waves satisfy a suitable version of the completeness relation (4.35). Expressing the δ-function with respect to the left Haar measure on SU(1, 1) in terms of the parameters p and n (see also B in [7]), we confirm the required condition: = δ e (u). (4.59) Before we use our non-commutative waves to carry out the group Fourier transform, we make some observations and comments. With the terminology explained after (3.23), the non-commutative waves e i( x,p +nϕ) = e i( x· p+nϕ) (4.60) look like standard plane waves on the product of Minkowski space with a circle. However, the momentum p is constrained by the conditions in (4.41), so that timelike momenta have an invariant mass which bounded from above by and are always in the forward lightcone.
It is natural to interpret the integer n in the spirit of particle physics as a label for different kinds of particles in the theory. Timelike momenta p with n = −1 may then be viewed as describing antiparticles. Lightlike and spacelike momenta for n = 0 have the usual interpretation as momenta of massless or (hypothetical) tachyonic particles. The other values of n describe additional types of massive, massless and tachyonic particles. Their existence is required by the fusion rules obeyed by the plane waves, which follow from the star product e i( x,p 1 +n 1 ϕ) e i( x,p 2 +n 2 ϕ) = e i( x,p(u 1 u 2 ) +n(u 1 u 2 )ϕ) . (4.62) The general features of this fusion rule can be read off from the picture of the conjugacy classes of SU(1, 1) in Fig. 2a. When multiplying plane waves for particles of types n 1 and n 2 , the particle type of the combined system is determined by the product, in SU(1, 1), of the group-valued momenta u 1 and u 2 . This is generalisation of the well-know Gott-pair in 2+1 gravity, where two ordinary particles n = 0) with high relative speed can combine into a particle with tachyonic momentum (and, in our terminology, of type n = 1).
Thus we think of the plane waves for SU(1, 1) as describing kinematic states particles in a theory with an invariant mass scale m p and with infinitely many different types of particles which combine according to the fusion rules encoded in the star product.
The Fourier transform of a covariant fieldφ : SU(1, 1) → H l± is given by where is the region in momentum space required in the parametrisation (4.41).
Applying the Fourier transform (4.63) turns the algebraic momentum space constraints into differential equations. The mass constraint (4.68) becomes the Klein-Gordon equation for the fractional part of the mass: The integer constraint (4.25) fixes the integer part of the mass via the differential condition on the angular dependence of φ: − i ∂ ∂ϕ φ(x, ϕ) = nφ(x, ϕ). This equation involves an exponential of the differential operators (3.29)and (3.30) combining spacetime derivatives with complex derivatives in the hyperbolic disk. This is the anyonic generalisation of the exponential Dirac operator e − λ 2 γ a ∂a φ(x) that was obtained in [3] for the massive spin 1 2 particle. Similar exponential operators have been considered in a more general context in [28], where it was stressed that they are essentially finite difference operators. The appearance of differencedifferential equations was first mentioned in relation to (2+1) gravity in [29].
It is clear that further work is required to make sense of the equation (4.71). Stripped down to its simplest elements (by reducing all dimensions to one), it is an equation of the form e λ d dx φ(x) = e λk φ(x), (4.72) or, assuming analyticity, φ(x + λ) = e λk φ(x). obtained by differentiating with respect to λ. This simple example suggests that the anyonic constraint (3.27) and the gravitational anyonic constrained (4.71) may, suitably defined, be infinitesimal and finite versions of the same condition. However, careful analysis is required to clarify the definition of (4.71) and its relation to (3.27).

Summary and Outlook
This paper was motivated by the observation that, in the context of 2+1 dimensional quantum gravity, the spin quantisation (1.1) forces one to consider the universal cover of the Lorentz group and that, in order to preserve the duality between momentum space and Lorentz transformations in the quantum double, it is natural to take the universal cover in momentum space, too. We showed how the representation theory of the quantum double of the universal cover SU(1, 1) can be cast in a Lorentz-covariant form, and can be Fourier transformed. In this process, the universal covering of the Lorentz group necessitates the use of infinite-component fields, but the universal covering of momentum space has more interesting and far-reaching consequences.
The first of these, exhibited both in the decomposition (4.9) and in the parametrisation (4.41), is the extension of the range of the allowed mass. The fractional part µ 0 of µ = 8πGm is the conventional mass of a particle, which manifests itself in classical (2+1)-dimensional gravity as a conical deficit angle in the spacetime surrounding the particle. The integer label n in the decomposition µ = µ 0 + 2πn appears to be a 'purely quantum observable', with no classical analogue. It manifests itself, for example, in the scattering Aharonov-Bohm cross section of two massive particles, as discussed in [18]. We have chosen to interpret it as a label of different types of particles or matter in (2+1)-dimensional quantum gravity. These particles can be converted into each other during interactions, according to fusion rules determined by the group product in SU(1, 1) and the decomposition of factors and products according (4.41).
The second and surprising consequence of the universal covering of momentum space is the appearance of an additional and compact dimension on the dual side, in spacetime. This is needed to define the group Fourier transform, and allows for a simple expression of the constraint determining the particle type n as a differential condition.
Our results raise a number of questions and suggest avenues for future research. As discussed at the end of the previous section, the exponentiated differential operators which generically appear as group Fourier transforms of the spin constraint should be studied using rigorous analysis. One expects these to be natural operators, possibly best defined as difference operators, not least because they are, by Lemma 4.3, essentially Fourier transforms of the ribbon element of the quantum double.
It would be interesting to repeat the analysis of this paper with the inclusion of a cosmological constant. This leads to a q-deformation to the quantum double of SU(1, 1) [23], and there should similarly be a q-deformation of the spacetime picture of the representations. Some remarks on how this might work are made in [2], but none of the details have been worked out.
Finally, it seems clear that our Hilbert-space valued fields φ on Minkowski space equipped with a -product fit rather naturally into the framework of braided quantum field theories, defined in [30] and studied, in a Euclidean setting, in [4,31]. Our paper is only concerned with a single particle and simple fusion rules for several particles. It seems that braided quantum field theory provides the language for discussing the gravitational interactions of several particles in a spacetime setting. This provides an alternative viewpoint to momentum space discussions, with the non-commutative -product and the universal R-matrix of the quantum double encoding the quantum-gravitational interactions.