Solitons and fractional statistics

Solitons in the continuum limit of the Calogero model are derived and shown to correspond to one-particle excitations. The statistical mechanics of exclusion statistics particles is then formulated in terms of a priori probabilities and a path integral is thereoff constructed. (Talk delivered at the Trieste April 1995 Conference on statistical mechanics and QFT and at the Oslo August 1995 Worskhop on low-dimensional systems.)