3 * Interface to GiNaC's Lorentz indices. */
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23 #ifndef __GINAC_LORENTZIDX_H__
24 #define __GINAC_LORENTZIDX_H__
30 #ifndef NO_NAMESPACE_GINAC
32 #endif // ndef NO_NAMESPACE_GINAC
35 /** Class of indices for Lorentz tensors, to tell them apart from other
36 * index families like color indices. The indices of this class also
37 * support the case of P-O-decomposed D-dimensional spacetime, where the
38 * parallel space is a Minkowski space with integral dimension P and the
39 * orthogonal space is a Euclidean space with (possibly complex) dimension
40 * D-P. The dimension D of spacetime is represented by the global symbol
41 * that is returned by the Dim() function. */
42 class lorentzidx : public idx
44 GINAC_DECLARE_REGISTERED_CLASS(lorentzidx, idx)
46 friend class simp_lor;
47 friend class scalar_products;
51 // default constructor, destructor, copy constructor assignment operator and helpers
55 lorentzidx (const lorentzidx & other);
56 const lorentzidx & operator=(const lorentzidx & other);
58 void copy(const lorentzidx & other);
59 void destroy(bool call_parent);
63 explicit lorentzidx(bool cov, bool oonly=false, unsigned dimp=0);
64 explicit lorentzidx(const std::string & n, bool cov=false,
65 bool oonly=false, unsigned dimp=0);
66 explicit lorentzidx(const char * n, bool cov=false,
67 bool oonly=false, unsigned dimp=0);
68 explicit lorentzidx(unsigned v, bool cov=false);
70 // functions overriding virtual functions from bases classes
72 basic * duplicate() const;
73 void printraw(std::ostream & os) const;
74 void printtree(std::ostream & os, unsigned indent) const;
75 void print(std::ostream & os, unsigned upper_precedence=0) const;
76 bool info(unsigned inf) const;
78 // new virtual functions which can be overridden by derived classes
81 // non-virtual functions in this class
83 /** Check whether index only lives in orthogonal space. */
84 bool is_orthogonal_only(void) const {return orthogonal_only;}
86 /** Return dimension of parallel space. */
87 unsigned get_dim_parallel_space(void) const {return dim_parallel_space;}
89 lorentzidx create_anonymous_representative(void) const;
93 bool orthogonal_only; /**< Symbolic index only lives in orthogonal space? */
94 unsigned dim_parallel_space; /**< Dimension of parallel space */
99 extern const lorentzidx some_lorentzidx;
100 extern const std::type_info & typeid_lorentzidx;
103 inline const lorentzidx &ex_to_lorentzidx(const ex &e)
105 return static_cast<const lorentzidx &>(*e.bp);
110 #ifndef NO_NAMESPACE_GINAC
112 #endif // ndef NO_NAMESPACE_GINAC
114 #endif // ndef __GINAC_LORENTZIDX_H__