Solution

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For , interchange the entries in slots while preserving the order of all intermediate fermionic creation operators. Move left through factors, then move right through the remaining intermediate factors. The canonical anticommutation relations give the overall fermionic sign
Hence
More generally any permutation gives
The sign of a permutation is independent of its decomposition into adjacent interchanges. Thus the -particle sector is an exterior power of the one-particle state space, the defining antisymmetry of fermionic Fock space. Repeated complete mode labels make the state zero, so they satisfy the same identity trivially.

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