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/* Copyright (C) 2004 Viktor T. Toth <http://www.vttoth.com/>
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
* published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
* the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
* useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
* warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
* PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* ITENSOR frames, torsion, and nonmetricity demo
*/
if get('itensor,'version)=false then load(itensor);
("In a frame base, partial derivatives do not commute")$
idiff(v([i],[]),j,1,k,1)-idiff(v([i],[]),k,1,j,1);
iframe_flag:true;
ishow(idiff(v([i],[]),j,1,k,1)-idiff(v([i],[]),k,1,j,1))$
("The Christoffel-symbols are replaced by connection coefficients")$
ishow(covdiff(v([i],[]),j))$
("Which in turn are the sum of Christoffel-symbols and frame coefficients")$
ishow(icc2([i,j],[k]))$
("The latter are defined in terms of the frame bracket and frame metric")$
ishow(ifc2([i,j],[k]))$
("The frame bracket has two definitions which are equivalent")$
block([iframe_bracket_form:false],ishow(ifb([i,j,k])))$
block([iframe_bracket_form:true],ishow(ifb([i,j,k])))$
("To explore torsion, we set up a metric but no contraction properties")$
remcomps(g);
imetric:g;
decsym(g,2,0,[sym(all)],[]);
decsym(g,0,2,[],[sym(all)]);
("First demonstrate that covariant differentiation commutes for scalars")$
iframe_flag:false;
itorsion_flag:false;
inonmet_flag:false;
ishow(covdiff(covdiff(f([],[]),i),j)-covdiff(covdiff(f([],[]),j),i))$
ishow(canform(%))$
("Now we introduce torsion")$
itorsion_flag:true;
ishow(covdiff(covdiff(f([],[]),i),j)-covdiff(covdiff(f([],[]),j),i))$
exp:ishow(canform(%))$
ishow(ev(%,icc2))$
ishow(canform(%))$
("Now we're ready to evaluate the contortion coefficients")$
ishow(ev(exp,ikt2))$
exp:ishow(ev(%,ikt1))$
("Noun forms of g are a side effect which we must get rid of")$
ishow(subst(g,nounify(g),exp))$
exp:ishow(canform(%))$
("We declare itr antisymmetric, and contract g^2 to kdelta")$
decsym(itr,2,1,[anti(all)],[]);
defcon(g,g,kdelta);
exp:ishow(canform(exp))$
("And we're quite done")$
ishow(contract(exp))$
("We can verify torsion in a frame base, too")$
iframe_flag:true;
covdiff(v([i]),j)-covdiff(v([j]),i)$
ishow(contract(canform(ev(%,icc2,ifc2,ifc1,ikt2,ikt1,ifg))))$
("Next, we verify the nonmetricity tensor")$
iframe_flag:false;
inonmet_flag:true;
itorsion_flag:false;
("We need all the metric tensor's contraction properties")$
imetric(g);
ishow(covdiff(g([i,j],[]),k))$
exp:ishow(ev(%,icc2))$
("Now we can evaluate ichr2, inmc1, and simplify")$
exp:ishow(canform(contract(rename(expand(ev(exp,ichr2))))))$
("In order to get the expected result:")$
ishow(canform(ev(exp,inmc1)))$
/* End of demo -- comment line needed by MAXIMA to resume demo menu */
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