Abstract
It is conjectured that all known fermions are topological solitons. This could explain the non-observation of bosonic leptons and baryons and provide a physical mechanism for the Pauli exclusion principle.
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Weiner, R.M. The Mysteries of Fermions. Int J Theor Phys 49, 1174–1180 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-010-0292-7
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