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Implement index raising and lowering in Tensors

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🐞 Problem We have no way to know whether the Tensor has contravariant or covariant indices

🎯 Goal

The indices must be properly formatted in front of a symbol.

Metric Tensor
Christoffel Symbols
Riemann Tensor
Ricci Tensor
Weyl Tensor

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Issue Analytics

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Created 4 years ago
Comments:11 (8 by maintainers)

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ritzvikcommented, Jul 4, 2019

@OVSofia , As evident from the checklist above, indices manipulation already works with some tensors. Kindly go through PR #278 thoroughly and try to understand the working. See the example http://docs.einsteinpy.org/en/latest/examples/Playing_with_Contravariant_and Covariant_Indices_in_Tensors(Symbolic).html . I’m assigning this to you, try to check the other two tick-boxes 😃

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ritzvikcommented, Jul 14, 2019

@OVSofia , ricci tensor checked! 😃

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