Troubleshooting Tensors: A Quick Fix Guide

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Hi... here it is... sorry for my english...

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Hello. Looks like you replaced A^\rho by g^{\alpha\beta}A_\beta. What happened to ##\rho## and how did ##\alpha## appear? Similarly for your indices on the partial derivative: ##\sigma## disappears while ##\eta## suddenly appears.
 
Thanks Tsny, ...but it's a simply rename of the index... i mean... i think this is not the problem..
 
You can't rename free indices, only 'dummy' (ones summed over) ones.
 
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