Which conservation law is violated in each of these proposed decays? Assume that the initial particle is stationary and the decay products have zero orbital angular momentum.

(a)${\mathit{\mu }}^{\mathbf{-}}\mathbf{\to }{\mathit{e}}^{\mathbf{-}}\mathbf{+}{\mathit{\nu }}_{\mathbf{\mu }}$; (b)${\mathit{\mu }}^{\mathbf{-}}\mathbf{\to }{\mathit{e}}^{\mathbf{+}}\mathbf{+}{\mathit{\nu }}_{\mathbf{e}}\mathbf{+}{{\mathit{v}}^{\mathbf{-}}}_{\mathbf{\mu }}$;(c)${\mathit{\mu }}^{\mathbf{+}}\mathbf{\to }{\mathit{\pi }}^{\mathbf{+}}\mathbf{+}{\mathit{\nu }}_{{\mathbf{\mu }}^{\mathbf{+}}}$

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