Time reversal of an electromagnetic gauge field

ID: time-reversal-of-an-electromagnetic-gauge-field

The vector Dirac current has an even temporal component and odd spatial components under time-reversal symmetry. Invariance of its real minimal coupling therefore gives the displayed transformation of the gauge field, up to a gauge transformation. Differentiation at yields , with . Thus the electric field is even and the magnetic field is odd.

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