- #1
unscientific
- 1,734
- 13
I was reading my lecturer's notes on GR where I came across the geodesic equation for four-velocity. There is a line which read:
Summing them up,
[tex]\partial_i g_{aj} u^i u^j - \frac{1}{2} \partial_a g_{ij} u^i u^j = \frac{1}{2} u^i u^j \partial_a g_{ij} [/tex]
I'm trying to understand how LHS = RHS, surely the indices ##a## and ##i## are different, how can you simply combine them?
I tried writing them out:
[tex]\partial_i g_{aj} u^i u^j - \frac{1}{2} \partial_a g_{ij} u^i u^j[/tex]
[tex] = g_{aj} \partial_i u^i u^j + \left( u^i u^j \partial_i g_{aj} - \frac{1}{2} u^i u^j \partial_a g_{ij} \right) - \frac{1}{2} g_{ij} \partial_a u^i u^j [/tex]Source: http://physicspages.com/2013/04/02/geodesic-equation-and-four-velocity/
Summing them up,
[tex]\partial_i g_{aj} u^i u^j - \frac{1}{2} \partial_a g_{ij} u^i u^j = \frac{1}{2} u^i u^j \partial_a g_{ij} [/tex]
I'm trying to understand how LHS = RHS, surely the indices ##a## and ##i## are different, how can you simply combine them?
I tried writing them out:
[tex]\partial_i g_{aj} u^i u^j - \frac{1}{2} \partial_a g_{ij} u^i u^j[/tex]
[tex] = g_{aj} \partial_i u^i u^j + \left( u^i u^j \partial_i g_{aj} - \frac{1}{2} u^i u^j \partial_a g_{ij} \right) - \frac{1}{2} g_{ij} \partial_a u^i u^j [/tex]Source: http://physicspages.com/2013/04/02/geodesic-equation-and-four-velocity/