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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2016 ib Paper 2 18D b Solution by
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Contractions of Lorentz tensors have no free indices and are Lorentz scalars. The antisymmetry and the components in part (a) giveThus and are the two electromagnetic field invariants under proper Lorentz transformations. The second contraction uses the orientation-dependent epsilon tensor: strictly, is a pseudoscalar, changing sign under an improper transformation such as spatial parity. Under the boosts in this question it is invariant.
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