Penrose Graphical Notation - Tensor Manipulation

Tensor Manipulation

The diagrammatic notation is very useful in manipulating tensor algebra. It usually involves a few simple "identities" of tensor manipulations.

For example, where n is the number of dimensions, is a common "identity".

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