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CCR/CAR and particle occupations in adopted free models
Conditional algebraic consequences of the adopted bosonic scalar symmetric-Fock and Dirac CAR-Fock free models. The result concerns normalizable one-particle wave-packet modes; it is not a general spin-statistics theorem, an interacting-field result, or an empirical claim.
Statement
Assume . In the selected model of Specified bosonic scalar and CAR Dirac model adoption, let be the scalar one-particle Hilbert space and let be the Dirac particle/antiparticle one-particle space. Let and be their zero-particle Fock vectors. The assignments of to bosonic Fock space and to CAR Fock space are the physical assumptions of that postulate.
For every unit scalar wave-packet mode , define These vectors are normalized and mutually orthogonal, belong to the finite-particle domain, and where . The maximal operator domains supplied by Bosonic and fermionic Fock operators with exact domains are Define the one-mode number operator as the composition The displayed finite-particle vectors belong to and satisfy .
For every unit Dirac particle mode or antiparticle mode , regarded as a vector of , the bounded operator is an orthogonal projection. The one-mode subspace generated by is the closed span of . It is spanned by and ; the latter is normalized and . Thus a single Dirac CAR mode has occupation or . All statements are conditional on the adopted representations and . They do not derive which statistics nature assigns to all fields and do not assert an experimental observation.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The physical species assignments in [A1], Countable Choice in [A2], and the mathematical Fock operator construction in [F1].
Specified bosonic scalar and CAR Dirac model adoption adopts the real scalar bosonic symmetric-Fock model and the Dirac particle/antiparticle CAR-Fock model. This is a physical model assumption, not a universal statistics theorem.
The Axiom of Countable Choice () states : every sequence of nonempty sets has a choice function. The Fock supplier assumes this principle, which is carried into this consumer.
Bosonic and fermionic Fock operators with exact domains assumes and a separable complex Hilbert space. It constructs the symmetric and antisymmetric Fock spaces and proves that is dense; the bosonic operators are mutual adjoints on their displayed domains and on satisfy , while the fermionic operators are bounded on the whole Fock space and satisfy and .
Bosonic and fermionic Fock operators with exact domains gives the exact bosonic maximal domains displayed in the Statement.
Schwartz/distribution spaces and Hilbert Fock conventions defines each Fock vacuum as , defines creation and annihilation by sector insertion and contraction, and states .
Proof
Given: [A1], [A2], and [F1]–[F3].
Fix a unit and put . The vacuum relation is and the CCR give . The base case is . If , then . Thus for every .
Fix a unit . By [F1], and . On finite-particle vectors, the insertion and contraction formulas of [F3] give : the antisymmetric projection can be removed against , after which the tensor pairing contracts the inserted with the first factor. Since both operators are bounded by [F1] and is dense by [F1], this identity extends to the whole Fock space and gives . Also by [F3]. Hence . A second creation vanishes. Since vacuum and one-particle sectors are orthogonal, the cyclic subspace generated by is exactly . Moreover, and because . Thus is a projection, so its only possible eigenvalues are and ; it acts as on and as on .
Since and are mutual adjoints on the finite-sector vectors, . Starting from gives . The vectors lie in distinct Fock sectors and are orthogonal. Consequently the displayed are orthonormal, and dividing by the factorial normalizations gives . The creation formula gives . The exact domains [F2] show that every finite-particle vector lies in both and , since each defining sum then has only finitely many finite sector terms. For , is finite-particle, so and ; hence and . For , , so and .
The scalar ladder and Dirac one-mode exclusion above follow only after the species-to-Fock assignments in [A1] are made. The argument uses the specified representations and proves no relation assigning statistics to every relativistic field.
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Sources
- David Tong, Quantum Field Theory, author-hosted full-text Chapter 2, §§2.2–2.4, Free Fields, Vacuum, and Particles
- David Tong, Quantum Field Theory, author-hosted full-text Chapter 5, §§5.2–5.4, Quantizing the Dirac Field
- Mark Srednicki, Quantum Field Theory, author-hosted 2006 prepublication book draft