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What are the conventions for the spinor metrics and their inverses?
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Perhaps you could check the Wess–Bagger convention in particle physics.
- Wess, J., & Bagger, J. (1992). Supersymmetry and Supergravity. Princeton University Press.
- Two-component spinor techniques by H.K. Dreiner, H.E. Haber, and S.P. Martin (often used to explain these conventions in detail).
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Thank you, Jedishrfu.
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