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Modern Physics Letters B

NEW WAY OF SYMMETRY REALISATION BY GENERALISED STATISTICS

Roberto Scipioni

Published Aug 20, 1994• 4 citations
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Abstract

By means of the recently introduced g statistics we provide a new way of symmetry realisation in quantum statistical mechanics and, in general, in field theory. Crudely speaking we are able to introduce objects whose statistics depend on the symmetries of ground state.
DOI
10.1142/s0217984994001199

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