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Symmetric versus Antisymmetric Tensors


Swap indices, or equivalently for rank-2 tensors, transpose the matrix. Any asymmetric tensor can be represented by a symmetric tensor (averaged values of 2 indicies) and an antisymmetric tensor (+ and - diviations from average).






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