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The correct title of this article is (-1)F. It features superscript or subscript characters that are substituted or omitted because of technical limitations.
In a quantum field theory with fermions, (−1)F is a unitary, Hermitian, involutive operator which multiplies bosonic states by 1 and fermionic states by −1. This is always a global internal symmetry of any quantum field theory with fermions and corresponds to a rotation by 2π. This splits the Hilbert space into two superselection sectors. Bosonic operators commute with (−1)F whereas fermionic operators anticommute with it.
This operator really shows its utility in supersymmetric theories.
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