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anticommutation

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  • noun mathematics The inverse of commutation

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anti- +‎ commutation

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Examples

  • If the field to be quantized is not a bosonic field, like the Klein-Gordon field or the electromagnetic field, but a fermionic field, like the Dirac field for electrons one has to use anticommutation relations.

    Quantum Field Theory Kuhlmann, Meinard 2006

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