SOME BASIC ASPECTS OF FRACTIONAL QUANTUM NUMBERS
The following sections are included:
The Secret of Fractional Charge
Polyacetylene and the Schrieffer Counting Argument
Field Theory Models of Fractional Charge
Zero Modes
Vacuum Polarization and Induced Currents
Varieties of Charge
Bookkeeping Charges
Topological Charges
Space-Time and Identity Charges
Fractional Quantum Numbers with Abstract Vortices
Fractional Quantum Numbers in the Quantum Hall Effect
Acknowledgments
References