Antisymmetric Tensor - Notation

Notation

A shorthand notation for anti-symmetrization is denoted by a pair of square brackets. For example, in arbitrary dimensions, for a order 2 covariant tensor M,

and for a order 3 covariant tensor T,

In any number of dimensions, these are equivalent to

More generally, irrespective of the number of dimensions, antisymmetrization over p indices may be expressed as

In the above,

is the generalized Kronecker delta of the appropriate order.

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