A Non-unitary Mapping from Cooper Pairs to Bosons

We derive a non-hermitian boson-fermion Hamiltonian, that is equivalent to the entirely fermionic Richardson Hamiltonian which describes the dynamics of conduction electrons in a superconductor. This is done using a generalized Dyson mapping, that replaces Cooper pairs with bosons. We show that the calculation of some physical quantities is simpler when one uses the boson-fermion Hamiltonian rather than the original Richardson Hamiltonian.