[GiNaC-list] question about lorentz_g contract with sy_anti tensor
Vladimir V. Kisil
kisilv at maths.leeds.ac.uk
Sun May 26 13:02:25 CEST 2019
>>>>> On Sun, 26 May 2019 10:23:56 +0000, Feng Feng <F.Feng at outlook.com> said:
FF> Thanks very much for your so quick reply. Yes, my mistake, I
FF> actually mean A^{abc}_{c} = A^{abcd} * g_{dc}
FF> So it goes back to my original post, it seems GiNaC will not
FF> produce a 0 result.
Raising-lowering indices can break symmetry of tensors, see the
second answer here:
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/315970/is-a-tensor-which-is-symmetric-in-two-indices-still-symmetric-after-raising-lowe
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