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At the Dawn of a Unifying Theory

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I present a brief summary of the recent advancements on the unification of abelian quantum Hall states that covers the effects of disorder as well as the Coulomb interactions. I also present some exact results on the CPN−1 model at large N. In contrast to the previous expectations, this theory shows all the basic features of the quantum Hall effect, including the massless bulk excitations at θ=π.

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Pruisken, A.M.M. At the Dawn of a Unifying Theory. Journal of Statistical Physics 103, 569–573 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010341316149

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