A Simple Method for Computing Soliton Statistics
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-22 v2 Condensed Matter
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
I provide an extremely simple argument that the kink-type solitons in certain theories are fermionic. The argument is based on the Witten index, but can in fact be used to determine soliton statistics in non-supersymmetric theories as well.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9301008,
title = {A Simple Method for Computing Soliton Statistics},
author = {Donald Spector},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9301008},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
9 pages, harvmac, HWS-92/09. (Added substantial details in one section.)