Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2002-01-29
J.Math.Phys. 44 (2003) 558-563
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
4 pages, RevTeX. v. 2: added refs and some small changes
Scientific paper
Recent papers by Finkelstein, Galiautdinov, and coworkers {[J. Math. Phys. 42, 1489, 3299 (2001)]} discuss a suggestion by Wilczek that nonabelian projective representations of the permutation group can be used as a new type of particle statistics, valid in any dimension. Wilczek's suggestion was based in part on an analysis by Nayak and Wilczek (NW) of the nonabelian representation of the braid group in a quantum Hall system. We point out that projective permutation statistics is not possible in a local quantum field theory as it violates locality, and show that the NW braid group representation is not equivalent to a projective representation of the permutation group. The structure of the finite image of the braid group in a 2^{n/2-1}-dimensional representation is obtained.
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