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symmetric tensor  

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  • In mathematics, a symmetric tensor is a tensor that is invariant under a permutation of its vector arguments:


    for every permutation σ of the symbols {1, 2, ..., r}. Alternatively, a symmetric tensor of order r represented in coordinates as a quantity with r indices satisfies


    (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric_tensor)

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