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      <title>Yes: Simplify.</title>
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      <itunes:summary>&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="left"&gt;I only saw your post now .. anyway:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="left"&gt;&lt;br&gt; From the formula you posted I assume you are working in a 3D Euclidean space; set things accordingly and define a tensor A&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="left"&gt;Your formula is (using the abbreviation ep_ for LeviCivita)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="left"&gt;To obtain the right-hand side you show, you can use Simplify&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="left"&gt;In the above, the repeated index n corresponds to your index i, and the dAlembertian corresonds to your &lt;img style="vertical-align: -11;" src="/view.aspx?sf=151431/468751/8a67c6e40e2d140dd1402438d09183fc.gif" alt="d_[i]*d_[i]" width="45" height="28"&gt;. To understand how this result is formed you can selectively simplify first the product of LeviCivita tensors using the dot operator, as in&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="left"&gt;Hi&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="left"&gt;I only saw your post now .. anyway:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="left"&gt;&lt;br&gt; From the formula you posted I assume you are working in a 3D Euclidean space; set things accordingly and define a tensor A&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="left"&gt;Your formula is (using the abbreviation ep_ for LeviCivita)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="left"&gt;&lt;img style="vertical-align: -6;" src="/view.aspx?sf=151431/468751/0b420d1b6393191e990ed01d1df90966.gif" alt="Physics:-`*`(Physics:-`*`(d_[i](d_[m](A[n](X))), ep_[m, n, j]), ep_[i, j, k])" width="303" height="23"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="left"&gt;To obtain the right-hand side you show, you can use Simplify&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0 0 0 0; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;" align="left"&gt;In the above, the repeated index n corresponds to your index i, and the dAlembertian corresonds to your &lt;img style="vertical-align: -11;" src="/view.aspx?sf=151431/468751/8a67c6e40e2d140dd1402438d09183fc.gif" alt="d_[i]*d_[i]" width="45" height="28"&gt;. To understand how this result is formed you can selectively simplify first the product of LeviCivita tensors using the dot operator, as in&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/view.aspx?sf=151431/468751/MaplePrimesLeviCivit.mw"&gt;Download MaplePrimesLeviCivit.mw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Edgardo S. Cheb-Terrab &lt;br&gt; Physics, Maplesoft&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>great!</title>
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      <itunes:summary>&lt;p&gt;this works fine. thanks for the answer!&lt;/p&gt;</itunes:summary>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;this works fine. thanks for the answer!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2013 01:11:28 Z</pubDate>
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