Huggett, Nick (2002) Quarticles and the Identity of Indiscernibles. [Preprint]

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A number of commentators (especially French and Redhead, 1988, and Butterfield, 1993) have investigated the status of the principle of the identity of indiscernibles (PII) for bosons and fermions. In this paper I extend that investigation to the full range of quantum particles of any allowed kind of statistics -- `quarticles', that is. I show that for any kind (except bosons and fermions) there are states in which PII is violated by every pair of particles, some pairs and not others, and by no pairs.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Huggett, Nick
Keywords:	permutations, statistics, quarticles, quantum mechanics, identity
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Fields and Particles Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Field Theory Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics Specific Sciences > Physics > Statistical Mechanics/Thermodynamics
Depositing User:	Nick Huggett
Date Deposited:	01 Aug 2002
Last Modified:	07 Oct 2010 15:10
Item ID:	711
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Fields and Particles Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Field Theory Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics Specific Sciences > Physics > Statistical Mechanics/Thermodynamics
Date:	July 2002
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/711

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