Recently, the canonical quantization of massive spin-1/2 fermions obeying Klein-Gordon like dynamics has been shown to become consistent by introducing a redefinition of the dual field that renders the theory pseudohermitian. In this work, we show that pseudohermiticity also allows for the consistent canonical quantization of this field but imposing bosonic statistics instead of the conventional fermionic one, and so the spin-statistics connection is evaded. The resulting theory admits renormalizable self interactions and belongs to a novel class of pseudo-Hermitian QFTs.

Recently, the canonical quantization of massive spin-1/2 fermions obeying Klein-Gordon like dynamics has been shown to become consistent by introducing a redefinition of the dual field that renders the theory pseudohermitian. In this work, we show that pseudohermiticity also allows for the consistent canonical quantization of this field but imposing bosonic statistics instead of the conventional fermionic one, and so the spin-statistics connection is evaded. The resulting theory admits renormalizable self interactions and belongs to a novel class of pseudo-Hermitian QFTs.