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Published July 18, 1991 | public
Journal Article

Statistics without spin. Massless D=3 systems

Abstract

The "spin"-statistics connection is more properly a Lorentz-group-representation-statistics correlation: For massless excitations in D=3, spin is undefined, but spinors-despite being expressible in terms of scalars-are still fermions.

Additional Information

© 1991 Elsevier. Received 27 April 1991. This work is supported in part by funds provided by the National Science Foundation under grant 88-04561, and US Department of Energy (DOE) under contract #DE-AC02-76ER03069.

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