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Non-Abelian Statistics of Axion Strings

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-26 v2

Abstract

We examine an axion string coupled to a Majorana fermion. It is found that there exist a Majorana-Weyl zero mode on the string. Due to the zero mode, the axion strings obey non-abelian statistics.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/0307005,
  title  = {Non-Abelian Statistics of Axion Strings},
  author = {Masatoshi Sato},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0307005},
  year   = {2015}
}

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10 pages, 1 figure, references and comments added

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