Spin and Statistics of Gravitational Anyons

Mar 27, 1990
16 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 344 (1990) 747-762
  • Published: 1990
Report number:
  • BRX-292

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
We determine the spin and statistics of a particle in 2 + 1 dimensions coupled to linearized gravity with a Chern-Simons term. The model and the results are compared to those of the corresponding abelian vector theory. The statistics emerge from the effective particle-particle interaction, while the spin is computed using the symmetric stress tensor of the system. We find that the spin-statistics relation is satisfied. In the gravitational case we show that while stress tensors are never gauge invariant, the Poincaré generators are; in particular, despite subtleties peculiar to two spatial dimensions, there are no “superpotential” ambiguities in these generators.
  • gravitation
  • gauge field theory: Yang-Mills
  • Chern-Simons term
  • dimension: 3
  • approximation: linear
  • postulated particle: anyon
  • spin: statistics
  • statistics: spin
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