Solution

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The cyclic products obtained by direct matrix multiplication are , , and . Reversing any two distinct indices changes the sign; equal-index products are . Therefore every pair is covered by
Here is the anticommutator and the commutator. Explicitly the three diagonal anticommutators are , all six off-diagonal ones are zero, and all three diagonal commutators vanish. The cyclic commutators are , respectively, with their reversed partners negative. The convention is .

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