Levi-Civita Tensor: Index Interchange Identity

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Does the following identity hold?:

[tex] \epsilon_{ijk} a_j b_k = -\epsilon_{ijk} a_k b_j[/tex]
 
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The answer is yes; clearly we have:
[tex] \epsilon_{ijk} a_j b_k = -\epsilon_{ikj} a_j b_k[/tex]

from which we can obtain your identity by relabeling the dummy indices j and k.