An orthogonal projection splits a one-particle Hilbert space into empty and filled modes. Take completed exterior Fock spaces of empty particles and of holes in the filled modes, with the graded tensor product enforcing the canonical anticommutation relations between both factors. The vacuum is killed by particle annihilation in and by particle creation in . Only finite particle-hole excitations are needed for a dense basis. Normal ordering subtracts the filled-vacuum expectation from bilinear observables.
In charge , let fill all integer modes below . Its rotation energy is . The negative Heisenberg current algebra of a fermion on the circle modes create mutually commuting oscillators with . Their normalized occupation monomials applied to are orthonormal. The Jacobi triple product identifies the fermionic charge-energy generating function with , proving completeness in each finite-dimensional energy space. Thus the rotation Hamiltonian is .
For integer modes filled at indices below zero, set and on the finite-energy domain. The canonical anticommutation relations give a central term in . Summing across the filled-empty boundary gives , with . The current's level is the coefficient of this central term.
A Fourier mode of the normal-ordered fermion density is a fermionic current. On the finite-energy domain its defining sum has finitely many nonzero actions on each occupation vector. The modes satisfy and . The zero mode is charge; positive modes annihilate charge ground states and negative modes create the oscillators in the fermion-boson correspondence on the circle.
For the irreducible representation of the canonical anticommutation relations determined by , a unitary one-particle map is unitarily implementable precisely when is Hilbert-Schmidt, equivalently when is Hilbert-Schmidt. The implementer is unique up to a scalar phase. The equivalent representation criterion for two polarizations is that their projections differ by a Hilbert-Schmidt operator. This yields a continuous projective unitary representation of the restricted unitary group.
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