Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Are derivative indices summed in indicial notation?


A paper I'm reading uses indicial notation and the convention that uj,k means the derivative with respect to xk. Which one of these interpretations are correct?


Aijkuj,k=jAijkδujδxk


Aijkuj,k=j,kAijkδujδxk




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