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What sort of software do people here like to use to mangle, errr I mean manipulate, Tensors in General Relativity?
What software do people use for tensor manipulation in general relativity?
In summary, the conversation is about software for manipulating tensors in general relativity. The person asking the question is interested in software that can manipulate tensors abstractly, rather than just calculating components. They mention a list of tensor software packages and express their current satisfaction with Maple and GRTensorII.
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I use paper and pencil. 
A while back, I heard that MathTensor is good (but expensive).
It seems lots of tensor software packages are used for calculating components. I'd be interested in one that helps me manipulates them abstractly (for example, calculations involving algebraic and differential identities satisfied by the Riemann and Weyl tensors).
You may have seen this list
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/RelWWW/software.html
A while back, I heard that MathTensor is good (but expensive).
It seems lots of tensor software packages are used for calculating components. I'd be interested in one that helps me manipulates them abstractly (for example, calculations involving algebraic and differential identities satisfied by the Riemann and Weyl tensors).
You may have seen this list
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/RelWWW/software.html
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robphy said:I use paper and pencil.
A while back, I heard that MathTensor is good (but expensive).
It seems lots of tensor software packages are used for calculating components. I'd be interested in one that helps me manipulates them abstractly (for example, calculations involving algebraic and differential identities satisfied by the Riemann and Weyl tensors).
You may have seen this list
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/RelWWW/software.html
I probably did read that list at one time - currently, I'm reasonably happy with Maple and GRTensorII, but I was wondering what other people here used.
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