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Jouko Mickelsson
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The non-associativity of translations in a quantum system with magnetic field background has received renewed interest in association with topologically trivial gerbes over $mathbb{R}^n.$ The non-associativity is described by a 3-cocycle of the group $mathbb{R}^n$ with values in the unit circle $S^1.$ The gerbes over a space $M$ are topologically classified by the Dixmier-Douady class which is an element of $mathrm{H}^3(M,mathbb{Z}).$ However, there is a finer description in terms of local differential forms of degrees $d=0,1,2,3$ and the case of the magnetic translations for $n=3$ the 2-form part is the magnetic field $B$ with non zero divergence. In this paper we study a quantum field theoretic construction in terms of $n$-component fermions on a real line or a unit circle. The non associativity arises when trying to lift the translation group action on the 1-particle system to the second quantized system.
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