Four-dimensional Majorana bilinear interchange

ID: four-dimensional-majorana-bilinear-interchange

For Grassmann-odd four-dimensional Majorana spinors, choose and . Then is symmetric whereas is antisymmetric. Swapping Grassmann components therefore changes the sign of a vector bilinear but preserves a three-gamma bilinear. Integration by parts and antisymmetry of the vector indices then make the two spinor variations of the quadratic Rarita-Schwinger field action equal. Commuting auxiliary spinors have different interchange signs.

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