a second short-range mode whose qualitative contribution to the solutions of the field equations cannot be ignored.

In the present paper we study the effects of the sample’s boundaries in the magnetic response of the anyon fluid at finite temperature. This is done by considering a sample shaped as an infinite strip. When a constant and homogeneous external magnetic field, which is perpendicular to the sample plane, is applied at the boundaries of the strip, two different magnetic responses, depending on the temperature values, can be identified. At temperatures smaller than the fermion energy gap inherent to the many-particle MCS model ($T\ll \omega _{c}$), the system exhibits a Meissner effect. In this case the magnetic field cannot penetrate the bulk farther than a very short distance ($\overline{\lambda }\sim 10^{-5}cm$ for electron densities characteristic of the high -T$_{c}$ superconductors and $T\sim 200$ $K$). On the other hand, as it is natural to expect from a physical point of view, when the temperatures are larger than the energy gap ($T\gg \omega
_{c} $) the Meissner effect is lost. In this temperature region a periodic inhomogeneous magnetic field is present within the bulk.

These results, together with those previously reported in ref. [@16], 