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The Fock space for the fermion field can be identified with the Fock space for the boson field, provided the overall numbers of internal degrees of freedom are the same. As a consequence, the respective free field Hamiltonian systems are equivalent (dual): the four-component neutrino model is thus equivalent to the doublet of independent (“electric” and “magnetic,” respectively) Maxwell fields, which are quantized in the Coulomb gauge. This statement arises on the field theory level, and seems to make doubtful the claim that realistic photons can be constructed from (bound) neutrino pairs: each (anti)neutrino degree should be represented by the photon-type (“electric” and “magnetic,” respectively) degree of freedom.
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Garbaczewski, P. Boson-fermion duality in four dimensions: Comments on the paper of luther and schotte. Int J Theor Phys 25, 1193–1208 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00668690
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