asym: Antisymmetric tensor part

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Antisymmetric tensor part

Description

Takes the antisymmetric tensor part of a tensor x with respect to the specified indices .... An error is thrown if the specified indices do not exist.

Usage

asym(x, ...)

Arguments

x	A labeled tensor object, created by %_% or tensor().
...	Any number of index expressions. The indices need to occur in x.

Value

A modified tensor object.

See Also

Wikipedia: Ricci calculus - Symmetric and antisymmetric parts

Other tensor operations: Ops.tensor(), kron(), l(), r(), subst(), sym()

Examples

a <- array(1:4, dim = c(2, 2))
a %_% .(i, j) |> asym(i, j)

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