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Question on Lorentzian geometry
The signature convention $(−,+,\cdots,+)$ is more commonly used in General Relativity and Lorentzian geometry because of the desire among their practicioners to make a closer parallel to Riemannian ...
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Can the derivative of eigenvectors with respect to its components be taken as zero if all eigenvalues are equal?
I’ll try to explain it in physicists words:
A matrix with all eigenvalues equal is proportional to the identity matrix.
The eigenvectors are maximally degenerate, as every arbitrarily oriented ...
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