Product of two Minkowksi metrics

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Can I say that [itex]\eta^{ij}\eta_{km}=\delta^{i}_{k}\delta^{j}_{m}[/itex]?

Kind of in the same way that they yield one delta in the case where one of their indices is summed over?

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but [itex]\eta^{ij}\eta_{km}[/itex] is sometimes minus-one :confused: