MINI MANUAL OF TENSOR SHORTHAND

Basic rules
An index appearing only once is a free index and can be 1,2 or 3.

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An index appearing twice in a term means that the expression must be evaluated as a sum:

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An index cannot appear more than twice in a term.

Kronecker delta:
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Examples

Example 1.

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i.e., a sum of 9 terms (for and . The only term that will be is
the one for which at the same time as . Therefore
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Example 2.
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Example 3.
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Example 4.
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Note also the shorthand for a partial derivative:

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By this, Eq. (10) can also be written

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Example 5.
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Example 6.
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Example 7.
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where

(hit only if and at the same time )

and
(if , exactly one of the terms in the sum will give a hit; if , there
will, on the other hand be no hit.)

Eq. (15) will therefore give

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Example 8.
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Example 9.
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where

(if , exactly one of the differentiation operators within the brackets will give a hit; if , there
will be no hit)

and

(there will be one hit in the sum for each of the 3 differentiation operators)

Therefore, Eq.. (18) gives

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