A colour singlet transforms in the trivial representation of the SU(3) colour group. Global colour rotations leave it invariant, and its colour generators annihilate it. A three-quark colour singlet uses the completely antisymmetric colour tensor; a quark–antiquark singlet contracts their colour indices.

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