Solution

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Parity preserves the Minkowski metric but reverses orientation. Hence ordinary tensor contraction makes
parity even, while the Levi-Civita pseudotensor changes sign and makes
parity odd. Equivalently, is proportional to and to . The combinations are proportional to the two quadratic Lorentz Casimir invariants, and parity exchanges them exactly as it exchanges the two factors in the complexified algebra.

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