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- From: t16@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Kasper Peeters)
- Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
- Subject: Re: Tensors in Maple
- Message-ID: <2185@nikhefh.nikhef.nl>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 20:28:12 GMT
- References: <2183@nikhefh.nikhef.nl> <LEE.93Jan22114425@pythagoras.math.washington.edu>
- Reply-To: t16@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Kasper Peeters)
- Organization: Nikhef-H, Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
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- I was aware of the fact that 'RICCI' can do a lot of these things. However,
- I also need to be able to substitute specific things into the components of
- various tensors, and I do need a system that does automatic dummy relabeling,
- not like 'RICCI' where the only way (correct me if I'm wrong) seems to
- perform every substution after explicit relabeling by 'NewDummy'
-
- DefineTensor(a,1,Variance->Con)
- DefineTensor(b,1)
- c=a[U[i]] b[L[i]]
- e=NewDummy[c] * Newdummy[c]
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- This is too complicated for the types of formulea I want to process.
-
- MathTensor seems to be able to do all these things, but as it is commercial
- and has a lot of things I really don't need, I'd still like to see something
- in PD.
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- Thanks for the tip anyway,
-
- Kasper
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