Fermi-Bose Transmutation for Stringlike Excitations of Maxwell-Higgs Systems

Abstract

We show that a closed Nielsen-Olesen string in presence of a point scalar source exhibits the phenomenon of Fermi-Bose transmutation. This provides physical support to previous claims about transmutation between bosonic and fermionic one-dimensional structures in (3+1) dimensions. In order to render the computations mathematically rigorous we have resorted to an Euclidean lattice regularization.

9 pages, LATEX file

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