While reading a paper on supersymmetry (by Peter West) i faced the following problem. Its about the symmetry property of charge conjugation matrix in different space time dimension. The charge conjugation matrix is defined as
CT=−ϵC
Problem is to find out the ϵ as a function of space-time dimension.
If the spacetime dimension D is even, the finite group generated by Clifford algebra γμγν+γνγμ=2ημν (Where , and ημν=Diag(−,,+,⋯,+)) consists of elements
I,γm,γm1m2,γm1m2m3,…γm1m2m3…mD
There are altogether 2D such matrices.
Following little algebra it can be shown that
(Cγm1m2m3…mD)T=ϵ(−1)(p−1)(p−2)2Cγm1m2m3…mD
Which means Cγm1m2m3…mD either symmetric or anti symmetric.
It says number of anti symmetric matrices in this set is equal to
D∑p=012(1−ϵ(−1)(p−1)(p−2)2)(Dp)
I know how to prove this result by calculating the (anti)symmetry property of Cγm1m2⋯mD for even dimensions by explicit calculations. But unable to prove the result mentioned.
Can anyone help to derive the last expression? It will be a great help. Thanks in advance.