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extdiff

Maxima Function

Calling Sequence

extdiff (expr, i)

Description

Computes the exterior derivative of expr with respect to the index i. The exterior derivative is formally defined as the wedge product of the partial derivative operator and a differential form. As such, this operation is also controlled by the setting of igeowedge_flag. For instance:

(%i1) load(itensor);
(%o1)      /share/tensor/itensor.lisp
(%i2) ishow(extdiff(v([i]),j))$
                                  v    - v
                                   j,i    i,j
(%t2)                             -----------
                                       2
(%i3) decsym(a,2,0,[anti(all)],[]);
(%o3)                                done
(%i4) ishow(extdiff(a([i,j]),k))$
                           a      - a      + a
                            j k,i    i k,j    i j,k
(%t4)                      ------------------------
                                      3
(%i5) igeowedge_flag:true;
(%o5)                                true
(%i6) ishow(extdiff(v([i]),j))$
(%t6)                             v    - v
                                   j,i    i,j
(%i7) ishow(extdiff(a([i,j]),k))$
(%t7)                      a      - a      + a
                            j k,i    i k,j    i j,k
exsec SciMax Toolbox extract_linear_equations