Is the Inner Product for Dirac Spinors Antisymmetric?

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Homework Statement


Show that [tex]\psi (\gamma^a\phi)=-(\gamma^a\phi)\psi[/tex]

Homework Equations



Maybe [tex]\{\gamma^a, \gamma^b\}=\gamma^a\gamma^b+\gamma^b\gamma^a=2\eta^{ab}I[/tex]

Perhaps also:

[tex](\gamma^0)^{\dag}=\gamma^0[/tex] and [tex](\gamma^i)^{\dag}=-(\gamma^i)[/tex]

The Attempt at a Solution


The gammas are matrices so I guess we start with

[tex]\psi_{\mu}[(\gamma^a)^{\mu\nu}\phi_{\nu}][/tex]
[tex]=\psi_{\mu}[(((\gamma^a)^*)^{\dag})^{\nu\mu}\phi_{\nu}][/tex]
[tex]=-[(((\gamma^a)^*))^{\nu\mu}\psi_{\mu}]\phi_{\nu}[/tex]

Which looks almost correct except the *, and also I'm not sure if I was supposed to assume that a can only refer to spatial indices, not the 0 which is equal to its hermitian conj, not minus it.

Thanks for any help
 
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