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Journal of Mathematical Physics

Bosons and Fermions

Robert V. Penney

Published Jul 1, 1965• 8 citations
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Abstract

It is proven that one cannot construct boson creation and annihilation operators from a finite number of fermion operators. The proof follows from the isomorphism of the fermion algebra and the algebra of Dirac matrices.
DOI
10.1063/1.1704366

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