Large scale tensor analysis by computer

DOI10.1016/S0010-4655(98)00142-8MaRDI QIDQ1807989zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors S. M. Christensen

Publication date 30 November 1999

Published in Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0010-4655(98)00142-8

zbMATH Keywords

curved space timequantum field theoryRicci tensorRiemann tensorRiemannian manifoldsymbolic computation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to differential geometry (53-04) Differential geometric aspects in vector and tensor analysis (53A45) Local Riemannian geometry (53B20) Packaged methods for numerical algorithms (65Y15) Symbolic computation and algebraic computation (68W30) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20)

Review text

The paper contains a description of the software package \textit{MathTensor} which can be loaded into the \textit{Mathematica} computer algebra system. The package is useful for manipulating large systems of equations and for detecting symmetries in tensor structures. The author addresses problems emerging from quantum field theory of curved space-times for instance to describe the distance along a geodesic curve between two points on a curved surface. It is a demanding task to convert a large Riemann tensor term into a linear combination of a minimal set of such terms. In quite a few examples the author illustrates how to tackle this problem by applying the package.

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Describes a project that uses

Uses Software

• SCHUR
• Mathematica
• MathTensor

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