IMPLICATIONS OF INTERPOLATIVE QUANTUM STATISTICS — A REVIEW

Abstract

A review of the interpolative quantum statistics is presented. It is shown, by imposing a positivity condition on the distribution function, that this statistics subsumes Gentile's intermediate statistics and is far richer than Gentile's statistics, apart from being a genuine quantum statistics. It is also capable of accounting for the possible very small violations of statistics in physical processes. It is finally pointed out that this statistics offers an elegant and useful parametrization of Haldane's 'statistical interaction', while retaining all the interesting features of the latter. Some of the statistical mechanics that these distribution functions lead to are also examined.