Canonical partition functions for parastatistical systems of any order

Abstract

A general formula for the canonical partition function for a parastatistical system of any order is derived. The formula expresses the canonical partition functions for these in terms of sums of Schur functions.The only hitherto known result due to Suranyi [Phys. Rev. Lett. 65, 2329 (1990)] for parasystems of order two is obtained as a special case. Our results apply not only to parastatistics but to all statistics that can be defined on the basis of the permutation group, including those for which no simple definition in terms of the algebra of creation and annihilation operators is possible.