How Is the Unit Operator Derived in Quantum Many-Body Hilbert Spaces?

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I am reading J.W.Negele and H.Orland's book "Quantum Many-Particle Systems". I don't know how one can derive equation (1.40) on page 6. The question is
For quantum many-body physics, suppose there are N particles. The hilbert space is

[tex]H_{N}=H\otimesH\otimes...H[/tex].

Its basis can be written as

[tex]\left|\alpha_{1}\alpha_{2}...\alpha_{N}\right)=\left|\alpha_{1}\right\rangle\otimes\left|\alpha_{2}\right\rangle\...\otimes\left|\alpha_{N}\right\rangle[/tex]

with closure relation

[tex]\sum_{\alpha_{1}\alpha_{2}...\alpha_{N}}\left|\alpha_{1}\alpha_{2}...\alpha_{N}\right)\left(\alpha_{1}\alpha_{2}...\alpha_{N}\right|=1[/tex]

Now introduce a symmetrization and antisymmetrization operator

[tex]P_{B,F}\psi(r_{1},r_{2}...r_{N})=\frac{1}{N!}\sum_{P}\varsigma^{P}\psi(r_{P1},r_{P2}...r_{PN})[/tex]

where [tex]\varsigma=1[/tex] for bosons and -1 for fermions. [tex]\sum_{P}[/tex] is sum of all permutations of coordinates.

Using this operator [tex]P_{B,F}[/tex] one can obtain the sub-hilbert space for fermions [tex]H_{F}[/tex] or for bosons [tex]H_{B}[/tex].

The basis in these two sub-space can be written as

[tex]P_{B,F}\left|\alpha_{1}\alpha_{2}...\alpha_{N}\right)[/tex]

My question is how one can derive the following equation

[tex]\sum_{\alpha_{1}\alpha_{2}...\alpha_{N}}P_{B,F}\left|\alpha_{1}\alpha_{2}...\alpha_{N}\right)\left(\alpha_{1}\alpha_{2}...\alpha_{N}\right|P_{B,F}=1[/tex]
 
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I now understand this relation, 1 is a unit operator in sub-hilbert space Hf or Hb.