Solution

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The QCD Yang-Mills theta term is
The chromoelectric field is a spatial vector and the chromomagnetic field is a pseudovector, so their scalar product is odd under parity. It is also odd under time-reversal symmetry because time reversal reverses but not . Charge conjugation reverses both color fields in the gauge-invariant trace and leaves the product even. The term therefore violates P, T, and CP, while it preserves CPT because the two sign reversals from P and T cancel.

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