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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 305 1 iv Solution by
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In four spacetime dimensions a Weyl spinor has mass dimension , so each chiral current or has dimension three. Since the interaction is , dimensional homogeneity of the Lagrangian givesEquivalently, the expanded four-fermion interaction has coefficients of mass dimension minus two.
Parity exchanges and . The square is invariant precisely when the two same-chirality coefficients agree, , while the mixed coefficient is already symmetric. Therefore
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