Difference between 2to2 interactions

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What is the difference between these interactions?
a+b \rightarrow c+d
and
b+a \rightarrow d+c
?

I was reading the "State-of-the-art formulas for helicity amplitude calculation and all that" ver 2.4, part Ia. - Spherical-vector method for helicity amplitudes (Formalism), by Ken-Ichi Hikasa.
In the discrete symmetry and helicity amplitudes sector (pg 5) he gives different invariant matrices M forms for these two above.
 
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Are you SURE there is no difference between the notation in the two equations, ONLY the ordering? (such as a helicity index change?) He doesn't reference two different diagrams? (s and t channel?)
 

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