From 1e8bbe7edb203ebfbfb169b7d3f84354fce2a2d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Bauer Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 21:01:58 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] the tensor returned by metric_tensor() is symmetric --- doc/tutorial/ginac.texi | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/tutorial/ginac.texi b/doc/tutorial/ginac.texi index 7ee78cb9..fe09793d 100644 --- a/doc/tutorial/ginac.texi +++ b/doc/tutorial/ginac.texi @@ -1640,9 +1640,9 @@ representation @code{diag(1,1,1,...)}. It is constructed by the function @cindex @code{metric_tensor()} @subsubsection General metric tensor -The function @code{metric_tensor()} creates a general metric tensor with -two indices that can be used to raise/lower tensor indices. The metric -tensor is denoted as @samp{g} in the output and if its indices are of +The function @code{metric_tensor()} creates a general symmetric metric +tensor with two indices that can be used to raise/lower tensor indices. The +metric tensor is denoted as @samp{g} in the output and if its indices are of mixed variance it is automatically replaced by a delta tensor: @example -- 2.44.0