New Kinds of Quantum Statistics

Abstract

I review the quantum kinematics of identical particles, which suggests new possibilities, beyond bosons and fermions, in 2+1 dimensions; and how simple flux-charge constructions embody the new possibilities, leading to both abelian and nonabelian anyons. I briefly allude to experimental realiza-tions, and also advertise a spinor construction of nonabelian statistics, that has a 3+1 dimensional extension.