In quantum field theory, the Klein transformation[1] is a redefinition of the fields to amend the spin-statistics theorem.

Bose–Einstein

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Suppose φ and χ are fields such that, if x and y are spacelike-separated points and i and j represent the spinor/tensor indices,

 

Also suppose χ is invariant under the Z2 parity (nothing to do with spatial reflections!) mapping χ to −χ but leaving φ invariant. Free field theories always satisfy this property. Then, the Z2 parity of the number of χ particles is well defined and is conserved in time. Let's denote this parity by the operator Kχ which maps χ-even states to itself and χ-odd states into their negative. Then, Kχ is involutive, Hermitian and unitary.

The fields φ and χ above don't have the proper statistics relations for either a boson or a fermion. This means that they are bosonic with respect to themselves but fermionic with respect to each other. Their statistical properties, when viewed on their own, have exactly the same statistics as the Bose–Einstein statistics because:

Define two new fields φ' and χ' as follows:

 

and

 

This redefinition is invertible (because Kχ is). The spacelike commutation relations become

 

Fermi–Dirac

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Consider the example where

 

(spacelike-separated as usual).

Assume you have a Z2 conserved parity operator Kχ acting upon χ alone.

Let

 

and

 

Then

 

References

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  1. ^ R. F. Streater and A. S. Wightman, PCT, Spin and Statistics and All That, §4.4, Princeton University Press, Landmarks in Mathematics and Physics, 2000 (1st edn., New York, Benjamin 1964).

See also

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