I Deriving the Commutator of Exchange Operator and Hamiltonian

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In the boxed equation, how would you get the right hand side from the left hand side? We know that ##H(1,2) = H(2,1)##, but we first have to apply ##H(1,2)## to ##\psi(1,2)##, and then we would apply ##\hat{P}_{12}##; the result would not be ##H(2,1) \psi(2,1)##. ##\hat{P}_{12}## is the exchange operator and ##H(1,2)## is the hamiltonian.

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$$P_{12}H(1,2)\psi(12) = P_{12}H(1,2){P_{12}}^\dagger P_{12}\psi(1,2) = H(2,1)\psi(2,1)$$
using ##P_{12}^2 = I## and ##{P_{12}}^\dagger = P_{12}##.
 
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