The antisymmetrization of the composite particles in cluster model calculations manifests itself in Pauli forbidden states (ghost states), if one restricts oneself to an undeformed cluster in the low-energy region. The resonating group method and the generating coordinate method rely on a property of the norm kernel, which introduces some of the ghost states. The norm kernel has been usually been calculated under the assumption that the inner wave functions have a simple Gaussian form. This is the first time that this assumption has been tested in a rigorous way. In the 4He+N system, we demonstrate a ghost state, which is calculated from a rigorous solution of Yakubovsky equations for the α particle. The ghost states calculated by rigorous and approximate methods turn out to have a very similar form. It is analytically proved that the trace of the norm kernel does not depend on the inner wave function we choose
