Non-Abelian braid statistics versus projective permutation statistics

DOI10.1063/1.1530369MaRDI QIDQ4832898zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Publication date 14 December 2004

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0201240

Applications of group representations to physics and other areas of science (20C35) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05)

Abstract: 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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