Parity transformation of a Dirac bilinear

ID: parity-transformation-of-a-dirac-bilinear

For parity acting as , the Dirac adjoint transforms as . A bilinear with matrix therefore transforms by , with its fields evaluated at . Since and the chirality matrix anticommutes with , the scalar bilinear is even and the pseudoscalar bilinear is odd. The same calculation shows that parity exchanges the chiral projectors.

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