Solution

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A Dirac-to-Weyl gamma-matrix similarity transform with the required signs is
It is a unitary matrix, with . Multiplication gives
The matrix commutes with every : their common block structure uses the same antisymmetric block matrix, and the scalar blocks of commute with each Pauli matrix. Hence , exactly the spatial matrices specified in the Weyl representation of the gamma matrices. A similarity transformation preserves every Clifford algebra relation, so no new consistency check is needed for the transformed representation.

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