3 * Interface to GiNaC's Lorentz indices. */
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23 #ifndef __GINAC_LORENTZIDX_H__
24 #define __GINAC_LORENTZIDX_H__
33 /** Class of indices for Lorentz tensors, to tell them apart from other
34 * index families like color indices. The indices of this class also
35 * support the case of P-O-decomposed D-dimensional spacetime, where the
36 * parallel space is a Minkowski space with integral dimension P and the
37 * orthogonal space is a Euclidean space with (possibly complex) dimension
38 * D-P. The dimension D of spacetime is represented by the global symbol
39 * that is returned by the Dim() function. */
40 class lorentzidx : public idx
42 GINAC_DECLARE_REGISTERED_CLASS(lorentzidx, idx)
44 friend class simp_lor;
45 friend class scalar_products;
51 explicit lorentzidx(bool cov, bool oonly=false, unsigned dimp=0);
52 explicit lorentzidx(const std::string & n, bool cov=false,
53 bool oonly=false, unsigned dimp=0);
54 explicit lorentzidx(const char * n, bool cov=false,
55 bool oonly=false, unsigned dimp=0);
56 explicit lorentzidx(unsigned v, bool cov=false);
58 // functions overriding virtual functions from bases classes
60 void printraw(std::ostream & os) const;
61 void printtree(std::ostream & os, unsigned indent) const;
62 void print(std::ostream & os, unsigned upper_precedence=0) const;
63 bool info(unsigned inf) const;
65 // new virtual functions which can be overridden by derived classes
68 // non-virtual functions in this class
70 /** Check whether index only lives in orthogonal space. */
71 bool is_orthogonal_only(void) const {return orthogonal_only;}
73 /** Return dimension of parallel space. */
74 unsigned get_dim_parallel_space(void) const {return dim_parallel_space;}
76 lorentzidx create_anonymous_representative(void) const;
80 bool orthogonal_only; /**< Symbolic index only lives in orthogonal space? */
81 unsigned dim_parallel_space; /**< Dimension of parallel space */
85 inline const lorentzidx &ex_to_lorentzidx(const ex &e)
87 return static_cast<const lorentzidx &>(*e.bp);
94 #endif // ndef __GINAC_LORENTZIDX_H__