In Chapter 5 to "The Quantum Theory of Fields" by Weinberg he gives a nice point of view on antiparticles. He says the following (I've called the last equation (*) because it is not numbered in Weinberg's book):
It may be that the particles that are destroyed and created by these fields carry non-zero values of one or more conserved quantum numbers like the electric charge. For instance, if particles of species $n$ carry a value $q(n)$ for the electric charge $Q$, then $$[Q,a(\mathbf{p},\sigma,n)]=-q(n)a(\mathbf{p},\sigma,n), \\ [Q,a^\dagger(\mathbf{p},\sigma,n)]=q(n)a^\dagger(\mathbf{p},\sigma,n).$$ In order that $\mathscr{H}(x)$ should commute with the charge operator $Q$ (or some other symmetry generator) it is necessary that it be formed out of fields that have simple commutation relations with $Q$: $$[Q,\psi_\ell(x)]=-q_\ell\psi_\ell(x)\tag{5.1.33}$$ for then we can make $\mathscr{H}(x)$ commute with $Q$ by constructing it as a sum of products of fields $\psi_{\ell_1}\psi_{\ell_2}\cdots$ and adjoints $\psi_{m_1}^\dagger \psi_{m_2}^\dagger\cdots$ such that $$q_{\ell_1}+q_{\ell_2}+\cdots - q_{m_1} - q_{m_2}-\cdots =0\tag{*}.$$
That this is sufficient I understand. Construct $\mathscr{H}(x)$ as $$\mathscr{H}(x)=\sum_{NM}\sum_{\ell_1\cdots \ell_N}\sum_{\bar{\ell}_1\cdots \bar{\ell}_M}g_{\ell_1\cdots \ell_N \bar{\ell}_1\cdots \bar{\ell_M}}\psi_{\ell_1}(x)\cdots \psi_{\ell_N}(x)\psi^\dagger_{\bar{\ell}_1}(x)\cdots \psi^\dagger_{\bar{\ell}_M}(x).$$
Then we can show that (omitting the argument $x$ to simply the notation): $$[Q,\psi_{\ell_1}\cdots \psi_{\ell_N}\psi^\dagger_{\bar{\ell}_1}\cdots \psi^\dagger_{\bar{\ell}_M}]=\left(\sum_{i=1}^N\psi_{\ell_1}\cdots \psi_{\ell_{i-1}}[Q,\psi_{\ell_i}]\psi_{\ell_{i+1}}\cdots \psi_{\ell_N}\right)\psi^\dagger_{\bar{\ell}_1}\cdots \psi^\dagger_{\bar{\ell_M}}\\ \quad +\psi_{\ell_1}\cdots \psi_{\ell_N}\left(\sum_{i=1}^M\psi^\dagger_{\bar{\ell}_1}\cdots\psi^\dagger_{\bar{\ell}_{i-1}}[Q,\psi^\dagger_{\bar{\ell}_i}]\psi^\dagger_{\bar{\ell}_{i+1}}\cdots \psi^\dagger_{\bar{\ell_M}}\right)$$
Therefore it is clear that if (5.1.33) holds and (*) holds, $[Q,\mathscr{H}(x)]=0$. This shows that (5.1.33) together with (*) is sufficient to ensure charge conservation.
But Weinberg speaks as if it were necessary. He says it himself that for $Q$ to commute with $\mathscr{H}(x)$ it is necessary that $\mathscr{H}(x)$ be formed out of fields for which (5.1.33) holds.
Why is this true? I can't see how $[Q,\mathscr{H}(x)]=0$ implies that the fields appearing in the construction of $\mathscr{H}(x)$ should satisfy (5.1.33) and (*).
Answer
Since Weinberg is, after all, a physics book rather than a book of rigorous math, I'm not convinced that one should attempt to understand "necessary" here in its rigorous logical meaning rather than a colloquial meaning. In any case, whether the Hamiltonian is "necessarily" formed from such fields is an ill-defined question to begin with:
Suppose we start with a Hamiltonian of the form suggested by Weinberg, with $N$ fields $\psi_i$ and $M$ $\psi^\dagger_j$ with simple commutation relations. If we now "rotate in field space", replacing the fields $\psi_i$ by fields $\psi'_i$ , where the latter are the result of rotating the $N$-vector of $\psi_i$ by some angle, you can plug these into the Hamiltonian (probably making it very ugly) to obtain the Hamiltonian of a theory that is completely equivalent to our "theory of simple fields" from the beginning but has no such simple commutation relations.
Conversely, if we start from fields with non-simple relations but $[H,Q] = 0$, then elementary representation theory for $\mathrm{U}(1)$ (the symmetry group of the charge numbers we are considering here) suggests that the vector space of fields must decompose into one-dimensional representations. Simply switch basis so that we use the basis vectors of these irreps as your fields and we have arrived at a formulation of the theory with simple commutation relations.
So if one reads Weinberg as "it is necessary that for a Hamiltonian that is the sums of products of fields that have conserved charges, a following choice of fields exists", then "necessary" is correct. If one reads him as "the only way to write down such a theory is with fields with simple commutation relations", then it's wrong.
This is completely analogous to changing coordinates on configuration space in non-field-theories. Consider a theory where $x$-momentum is conserved but $y$- and $z$-momenta are not. Then certainly no one would suggest that using $(x,y,z)$-coordinates rather than e.g. spherical coordinates is necessary to have a Hamiltonian where $x$-momentum is conserved - it's just a nicer choice of coordinates.
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