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- From: muttiah@thistle.ecn.purdue.edu (Ranjan S Muttiah)
- Subject: tensor cataract
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.003838.11202@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 00:38:38 GMT
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- I'm stuck in a local minima. How does one contract the Bianchi identity
- to get:
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- __ a
- \/ G = 0 ?
- ab
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- The Bianchi id is:
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- __ e
- \/ R . With R the Riemann tensor; One uses the g^ab to raise the
- [a bc]d index along the way to the above expression.
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- The [.] part is the antisymmetric tensor such as: T = 1/2(T - T )
- [ab] ab ba
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- I'm sure it is easy but my brain is, as I said, stuck in a local minima.
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