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For a finite physical supermultiplet at fixed positive energy, fermion parity anticommutes with each odd supercharge. Trace cyclicity makes $\mathrm{Tr}[(-1{)}^F\{Q,Q^{†}\}]=0$. Summing the Super-Poincaré algebra diagonal entries replaces the anticommutator by $4E$, giving equal bosonic and fermionic state counts. A zero-energy vacuum is an exception to the division by $E$, so it need not have a partner. The argument requires an invariant fixed-momentum representation, which is the step lost under explicit supersymmetry breaking.

Join $n$ spheres pole to pole, with $m$ longitude edges on each sphere and one qubit per edge. For this surface code, omit the Pauli X gates star checks at the two end poles. Include the Pauli Z gates checks on each two-edge face and the Pauli X gates star checks at the $n-1$ interior junctions. The boundary choice is essential for encoding one logical qubit.

Label an edge by $(r,j)$, with sphere $r$ and longitude $j$. Independent face checks are $Z_{r,j}{Z}_{r,j+1}$, $j=1,\dots ,m-1$, and the junction checks are $B_r{B}_{r+1}$ with $B_r={\prod }_{j=1}^m{X}_{r,j}$. There are $n(m-1)+(n-1)=nm-1$ independent stabilizer generators on $nm$ qubits, so the code space has dimension two. These are exactly the checks of a concatenated phase-and-bit-flip repetition code.

A pole-to-pole $Z$ path has weight $n$, and an equatorial dual $X$ cut has weight $m$. They cross once and have zero anticommutator, giving logical operations and quantum code distance $\min (m,n)$. If every pole star is instead included, the star rank is $n$ and the code dimension falls to one; the closed chain then carries no logical qubit.

If $A$ is diagonalizable, the anticommutator map $B\mapsto AB+BA$ has eigenvalues $2{\lambda }_1$, ${\lambda }_1+{\lambda }_2$ twice, and $2{\lambda }_2$. Their product gives the displayed characteristic polynomial. The density of diagonalizable complex matrices and continuity of polynomial coefficients prove the formula also for defective matrices.

For a finite-dimensional Lindbladian $\mathcal{L}$, convergence to one stationary density matrix for every initial state holds exactly when zero is a simple eigenvalue and every other eigenvalue has strictly negative real part. The decaying spectral modes then leave only the stationary component.

A scalar commutant of an operator algebra generated by $H,L_{\alpha },L_{\alpha }^{†}$ is not sufficient on its own. A useful sufficient criterion requires an additional hypothesis: a faithful stationary state, meaning a stationary density matrix that is a positive-definite matrix. Under that hypothesis, a commutant consisting only of scalar multiples of the identity operator implies uniqueness.^[ref]

For a directly checkable counterexample without a faithful stationary state, take an orthonormal basis $|0⟩,|1⟩,|e⟩$, $H=0$, andEvery density matrix supported on $\mathrm{span}\{|0⟩,|1⟩\}$ is stationary: both jump terms and the anticommutator terms vanish there. Nevertheless, the jumps, their adjoints and their products generate all nine matrix units, so their commutant is scalar. There are therefore infinitely many stationary states despite that scalar commutant. The missing faithful-state assumption changes the conclusion.

A two-field vacuum expectation value. Its ordered, time-ordered and anticommutator versions are different distributions. For a free Dirac field, fermionic time ordering combines the positive-energy particle and antiparticle contributions into a Dirac propagator. Its nonzero value at spacelike separation does not violate microcausality, which constrains the field anticommutator.

For mostly-minus metric signature, the Weyl sigma matrices are ${\sigma }^{\mu }=(I,{\sigma }_1,{\sigma }_2,{\sigma }_3)$ and ${\bar{\sigma }}^{\mu }=(I,-{\sigma }_1,-{\sigma }_2,-{\sigma }_3)$, where ${\sigma }_i$ are the Pauli matrices. The Pauli matrix multiplication law provesA real Lorentz four-vector is equivalently a Hermitian matrix $X=x^{0}I+x^i{\sigma }_i$ with $\det X=(x^0{)}^2-|\mathbf{x}{|}^2$. The transformation $X\mapsto MX{M}^{†}$ for $M\in \mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{C})$ preserves this determinant and gives the Lorentz spinor double cover. The indices ${\sigma }_{\alpha \dot{\beta }}^{\mu }$ therefore convert a vector index into one undotted and one dotted Weyl spinor index. They are the invariant tensors in the mixed supercharge anticommutator $\{Q_{\alpha },{\bar{Q}}_{\dot{\beta }}\}=2{\sigma }_{\alpha \dot{\beta }}^{\mu }{P}_{\mu }$.