Solution

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Assume a complete relativistically normalized basis of scalar momentum eigenstates transforms as
This states both reversal of spatial momentum and preservation of the normalization of basis quantum states. Antilinearity alone would not suffice: multiplying a conjugation operator by two gives an antilinear operator that multiplies squared norms by four.
Expand and similarly for , with . This Lorentz-invariant phase-space measure is unchanged under . The antilinearity of the quantum time-reversal operator gives conjugated expansion coefficients. Orthogonality of the momentum eigenstates and cancellation of their unit-modulus phases yield
Since momentum reversal is a bijection of the complete basis, is also onto. Thus
This proves antiunitarity, with the normalization hypothesis explicitly included. For scalar multiparticle quantum states the same argument uses the complete occupation-state basis and reverses all momenta; it is not restricted to a single-particle wave packet.

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