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In this article we shed some light on spatial inversion and its action on spinors. We based our discussion on a geometrical background. We remark two points in our discussion: a “natural” way to define spatial inversion on Weyl spinors and so on Dirac spinors; and we are able to show that the two common eigenstates (spin up and spin down) of a spin 1/2 operator are related between themselves through spatial inversion.
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Zeni, J.R. (1993). Spatial Inversion and Spinors. In: Brackx, F., Delanghe, R., Serras, H. (eds) Clifford Algebras and their Applications in Mathematical Physics. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 55. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2006-7_39
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