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Generalized statistics of macroscopic fields

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We define the notion of ‘generalized statistics’ and give some examples. In particular, we consider the relationsa i a * j -q ij a * j a i =δ ij for - 1 ⩽q ij =q ji ⩽ + 1 and we prove the existence of a Fock space representation of these relations.

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This work has been supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB 123).

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Speicher, R. Generalized statistics of macroscopic fields. Lett Math Phys 27, 97–104 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00750677

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