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A concise review of pseudobosons, pseudofermions, and their relatives

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We review some basic definitions and a few facts recently established for D-pseudobosons and pseudofermions. We also discuss an extended version of pseudofermions based on biorthogonal bases in a finitedimensional Hilbert space and describe some examples in detail.

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This research was supported in part by Palermo University and the G.N.F.M. of INdAM.

Prepared from an English manuscript submitted by the author; for the Russian version, see Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 193, No. 2, pp. 315–332, November, 2017.

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Bagarello, F. A concise review of pseudobosons, pseudofermions, and their relatives. Theor Math Phys 193, 1680–1693 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0040577917110083

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