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Bosonic and fermionic Fock operators with exact domains
Statement
Assume Countable Choice The Axiom of Countable Choice () and let be a complex Hilbert space with the second-variable-linear convention of Schwartz/distribution spaces and Hilbert Fock conventions. On define the bosonic creation and annihilation maps and and the fermionic maps and as in Schwartz/distribution spaces and Hilbert Fock conventions. Write and for their restrictions to the th bosonic sector. For bosons set
Then and are Hilbert spaces, is dense, and it is a graph core for both maximal bosonic sector maps. The bosonic operators on their displayed domains are closed and mutually adjoint, and on satisfy
The fermionic and extend to bounded operators on the whole Fock space, with norms , and satisfy on the whole space
This is a mathematical construction of the two Fock representations; it does not assign particle statistics to a physical species.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Countable Choice; a complex Hilbert space ; the symmetric and antisymmetric sectors, finite-particle domain, creation and annihilation formulas from Schwartz/distribution spaces and Hilbert Fock conventions.
The Axiom of Countable Choice is the only choice principle assumed by the Hilbert tensor suppliers used below. The Axiom of Countable Choice ()
Completed Hilbert tensor products use the product inner product, and elementary tensors have dense span. Hilbert tensor construction: inner product, completion and product bases
Permutations act unitarily on each tensor power; the averaging operators and are orthogonal projections onto the symmetric and antisymmetric sectors. Permutation sector projections on the n-fold tensor power
The sector creation, annihilation, and contraction maps are given by the formulas in Schwartz/distribution spaces and Hilbert Fock conventions: creation inserts and applies the symmetric or antisymmetric projection with the factor ; annihilation contracts the first factor with and the factor .
A bounded map induces on a completed tensor product with norm at most ; orthogonal complements use the Hilbert orthogonality convention. Bounded tensor maps: extension, norm estimate, adjoint and commutation Orthogonality and the orthogonal complement
The graph norm, closedness, core and adjoint-domain terms have the definitions in Unbounded linear operators: domain, graph and extension, Densely defined, closed and closable operators, and cores, Adjoint of a densely defined operator, and Symmetric, self-adjoint and essentially self-adjoint operators. Apply their first-variable-linear adjoint convention to . Conjugating the defining identity gives , with unchanged norm, adjoint domain and adjoint value.
Proof
Each sector or is a closed subspace of its Hilbert tensor power, being the range of the corresponding orthogonal projection [F2]. The square-summable direct sum of these sectors is complete: for a Cauchy sequence, each coordinate converges in its complete sector; finite partial sums of squared coordinate norms are bounded by the common sequence bound, so the coordinate limits are square-summable; taking coordinate limits in the Cauchy estimate over each finite set of coordinates and then the supremum proves convergence in the direct-sum norm. Truncating a square-summable sequence after sector converges in norm, so is dense.
On sector , creation and contraction have norms at most and , respectively: the contraction has norm at most on its first factor by Cauchy–Schwarz and extends to the tensor product with the same bound [F4]; each symmetrizer or antisymmetrizer has norm at most one [F2]. For and , use and self-adjointness of to compute ; the tensor product pairing gives the middle equality because . The same calculation with proves the fermionic relation.
The maximal bosonic direct-sum maps are closed. For example, if and in Fock norm, boundedness of each sector map gives coordinatewise ; since is square-summable, the defining sum for is finite and . The same coordinate argument applies to . Truncating a vector and its image after sector shows is a graph core for each. For the adjoint, testing against vectors supported in sector forces the adjoint output coordinate in sector to be ; square-summability of these coordinates is exactly the displayed domain of . Conversely, if that sum is finite, the sector pairing of step 1.2 and Cauchy–Schwarz in the direct sum give the adjoint identity for every vector in . Thus . Testing against input sector similarly forces its output coordinate to be ; square-summability and the same pairing give exactly and the converse inclusion. Hence the maximal maps are mutually adjoint.
For and a symmetric elementary tensor , contraction and creation give and , by expanding the permutation averages [F2]. In the composition , the contraction term for the newly inserted is ; each of the other contraction terms is exactly the corresponding term of . Hence their difference is . On sector zero, , , and give the same commutator directly. Symmetry of makes two creations commute; two contractions commute because contracting distinct tensor slots in either order gives the same sum. Finite elementary symmetric tensors are dense in each sector and the sector maps are bounded there, so the identities hold on all of .
For a unit vector , put . In the th antisymmetric sector, every decomposes as with the second term in , so . Tensors split orthogonally into those with no factor and those with exactly one: expand each tensor factor in ; terms with two factors vanish under antisymmetrization, and different placements of the single are orthogonal. The map is an isometry from the no- part of sector onto the one- part of sector , since the placements are orthogonal and each has coefficient in the antisymmetrizer. It vanishes on the one- part. Its adjoint reverses this isometry and vanishes on the no- part. Thus and both maps have norm one. Scaling gives and norms for ; for these statements hold because both operators vanish. Antisymmetry gives ; taking adjoints gives . Polarizing the diagonal anticommutator at and , using that is conjugate-linear and is linear, yields : if , then the sesquilinear polarization identity is , where ; substituting gives the claimed scalar. Polarizing and gives the two same-type anticommutators. All fermionic maps are bounded, so these identities hold on the whole Fock space.
Depends on
Schwartz/distribution spaces and Hilbert Fock conventions
The Axiom of Countable Choice ()
Orthogonality and the orthogonal complement
Unbounded linear operators: domain, graph and extension
Densely defined, closed and closable operators, and cores
Adjoint of a densely defined operator
Symmetric, self-adjoint and essentially self-adjoint operators
Hilbert tensor construction: inner product, completion and product bases
Bounded tensor maps: extension, norm estimate, adjoint and commutation
Permutation sector projections on the n-fold tensor power