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Could anyone help me to solve the following?

Consider the four dirac matrices(what is dirac matrix?) that obey $M_iM_j+M_jM_i=2\delta_{ij}I$, this is usual Kronecker delta. Thus the square of each dirac matrix is unit matrix(how?), and any two distinct dirac matrices anticommute, show that they are traceless.

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(what is dirac matrix?)

Google it, or see Encyclopedia of Mathematics.

Thus the square of each dirac matrix is unit matrix(how?),

Put $i=j$.

and any two distinct dirac matrices anti commute,

Put $i\ne j$.

show that they are traceless.

Let $i\ne j$. Consider $\operatorname{tr}\left(M_i(M_j^2)\right)$, which is also equal to $\operatorname{tr}\left((M_iM_j)M_j\right)$.