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Opposite intrinsic parities of a Dirac particle and antiparticle

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In the Dirac representation of the gamma matrices, the parity symmetry in quantum field theory action ψP​(x)=γ0ψ(xP​) and the charge conjugation action ψC​=iγ2ψ∗ obey (ψP​)C​(x)=−γ0ψC​(xP​), since γ0 is real and anticommutes with γ2. At rest, positive-frequency Dirac spinors have nonzero upper components and negative-frequency Dirac spinors have nonzero lower components; they are respectively +1 and −1 eigenvectors of γ0. With the common conventional real intrinsic-parity phase, particle and antiparticle therefore have opposite intrinsic parity. The overall sign is conventional, whereas their relative sign is fixed.

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