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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2007 iii Paper 10 1 a Solution by
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Use the complex inner product convention linear in its first argument. Give the exterior algebra its induced inner product, with an orthonormal wedge basis. Exterior multiplication is . Its adjoint is contraction:Applying this formula to separates its first term from the remaining terms, giving . Hence the canonical anticommutation relations areFor irreducibility, choose an orthonormal basis . The occupancy projections are , and projects onto the vacuum . For an increasing index set , put . Then maps the wedge basis vector to and kills every other wedge basis vector. Thus these products are all matrix units and the generated star-algebra is . Any common invariant subspace for the creation and annihilation operators is therefore either zero or all of .
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