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Since the chirality matrix commutes with spinor Lorentz generators, $j_5^{\mu }=\bar{\psi }{\gamma }^{\mu }{\gamma }^5\psi$ transforms as a vector under proper Lorentz transformations and as a pseudovector under parity. Contracting two copies gives the Lorentz scalar $j_{5\mu }{j}_5^{\mu }$; the extra parity signs cancel. Lorentz invariance of this interaction does not require current conservation.

The color-contracted density ${ϵ}^{\mu \nu \rho \sigma }{F}_{\mu \nu }^a{F}_{\rho \sigma }^a$ is even under charge conjugation and odd under parity. In matrix form the two charge-conjugation signs cancel and transposition leaves the trace of the product unchanged. Parity contributes its orientation-reversing determinant to the four-index Levi-Civita symbol. Thus the density is CP odd. A generic fixed coefficient violates CP symmetry; being a local total derivative does not eliminate effects from nontrivial gauge topology.

In a symmetric initial population of particles and antiparticles, exact CP symmetry equates conjugate decay rates after summing final momenta and helicities. Since parity does not reverse baryon number, this equality prevents a total baryon asymmetry even if charge conjugation alone is violated. Different same-helicity rates can cancel against the opposite-helicity rates.

For vector coupling to a Dirac fermion, write the Hermitian color connection ${\mathcal{A}}_{\mu }=A_{\mu }^a{T}^a$. Charge conjugation reverses the vector current and transposes its color matrix, requiring ${\mathcal{A}}_{\mu }^C=-{\mathcal{A}}_{\mu }^T$. Combining with parity gives ${\mathcal{A}}_{\mu }^{CP}(x)=-P_{\mu }{}^{\nu }{\mathcal{A}}_{\nu }^T(x_P)$, where $P=\mathrm{diag}(1,-1,-1,-1)$. The transpose acts only on color indices; intrinsic fermion phases cancel in the bilinear.

Because the position operator has odd parity, an electric-dipole matrix element vanishes between states of the same parity. For orbital-angular-momentum eigenstates, the full rule is $\Delta \ell =\pm 1$ and $\Delta m=0,\pm 1$, with the field polarization selecting the allowed change in $m$.

For a parity-symmetric one-dimensional potential, the even and odd parity states diagonalize the One-dimensional S-matrix:For a real potential, unitarity further gives $|S_{++}|=|S_{--}|=1$ at real positive energy.