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anticommute

anticommute

[‚an·tē·kə′myüt]
(mathematics)
Two operators anticommute if their anticommutator is equal to zero.
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Bosons commute and as seen from (1) above, only the symmetric part contributes, while fermions anticommute and only the antisymmetric part contributes.
Any sixth matrix does not anticommute with all these five.
where the BRST operator is nilpotent and [s.sup.2] = 0 and anticommutes with [??].
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