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Publications and source records attributed to W. D. McGlinn.
The first and second homology groups are computed for configuration spaces of framed three-dimensional point particles with annihilation included, when up to two particles and an antiparticle are present.
Recently, a topological proof of the spin-statistics Theorem has been proposed for a system of point particles which does not require relativity or field theory, but assumes the existence of antiparticles. We extend this proof to a system of string loops in three space dimensions and show that by assuming the existence of antistring loops, one can prove a spin-statistics theorem for these string loops. According to this theorem, all unparametrized strings(such as flux tubes in superconductors and cosmic strings ) should be quantized as bosons. Also, as in the point particle case, we find that the theorem excludes nonabelian statistics.