liesymm
&^
the wedge product
Calling Sequence
Parameters
Description
Examples
a &^ b
`&^`(a, b, c)
a, b, c
-
expression involving differential forms relative to specific coordinates
This routine is part of the liesymm package and is loaded via with(liesymm) .
It computes the wedge product of differential forms relative to the coordinates defined by setup().
All 1-forms are generated by applying d() to the coordinates.
All wedge products are automatically simplified to a wedge product of n 1-forms by extracting coefficients of wedge degree 0.
All results of a wedge product are reported using an address ordering of the 1-forms to facilitate simplifications. Thus dy&ˆdx may simplify to −dx&ˆdy and if so will do so consistently within a given session.
The ordering used for simplifications of the products of 1-forms is available as wedgeset1.
withliesymm:
setupx,y,z
x,y,z
dt&ˆdx
0
dx&ˆdy
−dy&ˆdx
5dx&ˆdy&ˆ3dz
−15&^dz,dy,dx
`&^`adx,bdy,cdz
−abc&^dz,dy,dx
See Also
liesymm[hook]
liesymm[Lie]
liesymm[setup]
liesymm[wedgeset]
with
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