[GiNaC-devel] Clifford extension

Christian Bauer Christian.Bauer at uni-mainz.de
Thu Nov 25 17:57:04 CET 2004


Hi!

On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 01:42:20PM +0000, Vladimir Kisil wrote:
>   Since present code never actually uses a symmetry of defined metrics I
>   propose to drop such an assumption from anywhere.

Ok, but this would cause any metric tensors arising from contractions etc.
to have no (specified) symmetry, thereby possibly preventing simplifications
if the metric was in fact symmetric. Maybe GiNaC needs to also store the
symmetry of the metric somewhere.

Bye,
Christian

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