https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/quant-ph_0601076/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43395182urn:hackerpapers:mention:quant-ph_0601076:43395182Tue, 18 Mar 2025 02:34:08 GMT<p>In physics, particles not being labelled by anything other than their trajectories is a very natural starting point. When one uses the natural configuration space, one without labels in which a configuration is a set of n points in physical space rather than an ordered n-tuple, then the complex-valued wave functions on that space are exactly those of boson type. To get the fermions, one replaces the value space with a 1 dimensional complex bundle over the configuration space, one which twists in the right way. A paper I coauthored explores this in a general context: [1] The &quot;you&quot; is then a…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/quant-ph_0601076/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>quant-ph