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A method is developed for calculating the index of first-order operators involving as background fields the scalar and vector fields of the two-dimensional Abelian Higgs model. The method is applied to the Dirac operator and shown to relate the number of fermion zero modes to the topology of the Higgs field.
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Erick J. Weinberg (1981) studied this question.
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