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Since the early days of quantum mechanics, it has been well-known that the physical behavior of collections of identical particles is influenced not only by conventional interactions but also by the statistics of the particles. These are classified into bosons and fermions depending on whether they obey the Bose-Einstein or the Fermi-Dirac statistics respectively. The particle statistics determines the structure of the many-body wavefunctions, that turn out to be symmetric under permutations of identical bosons, but antisymmetric under permutations of identical fermions.
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In this book we will not discuss this approach and we refer the reader to the original literature as well as to the review article (Goldin and Sharp 1991).
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(1992). Introduction. In: Anyons. Lecture Notes in Physics Monographs, vol 14. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-47466-1_1
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