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There must exist 16 linearly independent 4 × 4 matrices which we denote by \( (\hat \Gamma ^n )_{\alpha \beta } \). It turns out that one can construct 16 (a complete set) of these \(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\frown}$}}{\Gamma } _n \left( {n = 1, \ldots ,16} \right) \) from the Dirac matrices and their products.
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Greiner, W. (1990). Bilinear Covariants of the Dirac Spinors. In: Relativistic Quantum Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88082-7_5
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