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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 iii Paper 305 4 c Solution by
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The QCD Yang-Mills theta term isThe 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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