AxiomOfChoice Messages 531 Reaction score 1 Thread starter Feb 28, 2009 #1 Does the following identity hold?: [tex] \epsilon_{ijk} a_j b_k = -\epsilon_{ijk} a_k b_j[/tex]
confinement Messages 192 Reaction score 0 Feb 28, 2009 #3 The answer is yes; clearly we have: [tex] \epsilon_{ijk} a_j b_k = -\epsilon_{ikj} a_j b_k[/tex] from which we can obtain your identity by relabeling the dummy indices j and k.
The answer is yes; clearly we have: [tex] \epsilon_{ijk} a_j b_k = -\epsilon_{ikj} a_j b_k[/tex] from which we can obtain your identity by relabeling the dummy indices j and k.