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  2. List of formulas in Riemannian geometry - Wikipedia

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    where | g | is the absolute value of the determinant of the matrix of scalar coefficients of the metric tensor . These are useful when dealing with divergences and Laplacians (see below). The covariant derivative of a vector field with components is given by:

  3. Tensors in curvilinear coordinates - Wikipedia

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    Let r(x) be the position vector of the point x with respect to the origin of the coordinate system. The notation can be simplified by noting that x = r(x). At each point we can construct a small line element dx. The square of the length of the line element is the scalar product dx • dx and is called the metric of the space.

  4. Cartesian tensor - Wikipedia

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    A more general notation is tensor index notation, which has the flexibility of numerical values rather than fixed coordinate labels. The Cartesian labels are replaced by tensor indices in the basis vectors e x ↦ e 1, e y ↦ e 2, e z ↦ e 3 and coordinates a x ↦ a 1, a y ↦ a 2, a z ↦ a 3.

  5. Chebyshev polynomials - Wikipedia

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    The real part of the other side is a polynomial in cos x and sin x, in which all powers of sin x are even and thus replaceable through the identity cos 2 x + sin 2 x = 1. By the same reasoning, sin nx is the imaginary part of the polynomial, in which all powers of sin x are odd and thus, if one factor of sin x is factored out, the remaining ...

  6. Tensor - Wikipedia

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    Changing the basis transforms the values in the array in a characteristic way that allows to define tensors as objects adhering to this transformational behavior. For example, there are invariants of tensors that must be preserved under any change of the basis, thereby making only certain multidimensional arrays of numbers a tensor.

  7. Metric signature - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, the signature (v, p, r) [clarification needed] of a metric tensor g (or equivalently, a real quadratic form thought of as a real symmetric bilinear form on a finite-dimensional vector space) is the number (counted with multiplicity) of positive, negative and zero eigenvalues of the real symmetric matrix g ab of the metric tensor with respect to a basis.

  8. Voigt notation - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, Voigt notation or Voigt form in multilinear algebra is a way to represent a symmetric tensor by reducing its order. [1] There are a few variants and associated names for this idea: Mandel notation, Mandel–Voigt notation and Nye notation are others found.

  9. Glossary of tensor theory - Wikipedia

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    This means that there is no need to distinguish covariant and contravariant components, and furthermore there is no need to distinguish tensors and tensor densities. All Cartesian-tensor indices are written as subscripts. Cartesian tensors achieve considerable computational simplification at the cost of generality and of some theoretical insight.