 Weyl spinor bilinear exchange identity (source code)

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= Weyl spinor bilinear exchange identity
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For odd <Grassmann variables>, $(\chi\psi)=\chi^\alpha\psi_\alpha$ is symmetric under exchanging the two spinors: the Grassmann sign cancels the sign of the antisymmetric epsilon contraction. With $\epsilon^{12}=1$, lower components $\chi=(a,b)$ and $\psi=(c,d)$ give $(\chi\psi)=bc-ad$. Commuting numerical spinors instead give an antisymmetric contraction.

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