How Does Variation in the Metric Determinant Depend on Its Inverse?

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Let h = det h_{alpha beta}. The number of dimensions is not necessarily four. Show that
[tex] \[<br /> \delta h = -h h_{\alpha \beta} \delta h^{\alpha \beta} \, ;<br /> \][/tex]

delta h is the variation in h.

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