The left creation operators on the Fock space

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Gelu Popescu has a big paper on multivariable generalizations of the numerical radius (Memoirs of the AMS, arXiv). In page 8 of this memoirs I see the following paragraph:

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Are the operators $S_i$ commuting?

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Well, $S_i(S_j1)=S_i(e_j)=e_i\otimes e_j$ and $S_j(S_i1)=e_j\otimes e_i$. In $H\otimes H$, $e_i\otimes e_j\ne e_j \otimes e_i$ unless $i= j$, so if $i\ne j$ then $S_iS_j\ne S_j S_i$.