Preprint GA 1/2003

On time evolution and quantum mechanics on noncommutative spaces

By Alexander Holfter, Tomas Kopf and Mario Paschke

We comment on the generalization of the previously given axioms for nonrelativistic quantum mechanics to (generic) noncommutative configuration spaces. We also give a detailed account of the examples $C^\infty (\CQ)\otimes M_n(\C)$ which leads to nonabelian Yang-Mills theories. We also examine models over the Moyal-deformed plane $\R^2_\theta$. We show that in this case the canonical uncertainty relation $[x_k, \dot{x}_l] = ig_{kl}$ on a manifold with metric $g_{kl}$ is only consistent if $g_{kl}$ is constant.