Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 301 2 c Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
A Dirac-to-Weyl gamma-matrix similarity transform with the required signs isIt is a unitary matrix, with . Multiplication givesThe matrix commutes with every : their common block structure uses the same antisymmetric block matrix, and the scalar blocks of commute with each Pauli matrix. Hence , exactly the spatial matrices specified in the Weyl representation of the gamma matrices. A similarity transformation preserves every Clifford algebra relation, so no new consistency check is needed for the transformed representation.