Covariant differentiation



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Covariant differentiation

  Currently covariant differentiation reduces to ordinary differentiation and yields an object with a new tensor index. The more natural notion of an intrinsic derivative is not defined by any REDTEN function, but can be evaluated directly by the user if required.



John Harper
Wed Nov 16 13:34:23 EST 1994