Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2012 iii Paper 45 3 a Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-07
The Weyl fields have odd Grassmann parity. With the given epsilon convention, write and , where all four components anticommute. Raising an index gives and . HenceThe minus sign from the antisymmetric epsilon tensor is canceled by exchanging the two Grassmann-odd components. Therefore the Weyl spinor bilinear exchange identity isFor commuting numerical spinors the exchange sign would instead be negative. The answer here uses fermionic Weyl fields, as appropriate to the supersymmetric model.