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Km (x ) = det ∂xi ∂x l r · ∂xi1 ∂xin ∂xk1 ∂xkm . . . jm (x) . 36) Remark. All operations over densities can be defined in a obvious way. We shall leave the construction of these definitions as Exercises for the reader. Exercise 24. Prove that a product of the tensor density of the weight r and another tensor density of the weight s is a tensor density of the weight r + s. Exercise 25. (i) Construct an example of the covariant tensor of the 5-th rank, which symmetric in the two first indices and absolutely antisymmetric in other three.
Using the components of the Christoffel symbol derived above, we obtain 2 div A = ∇i A˜i = ∂i A˜i + Γiji A˜j = ∂i A˜i + cot θ · A˜θ + A˜r = r = ∂ A˜θ ∂ A˜ϕ 2A˜r ∂ A˜r + + + cot θ · A˜θ + . ∂r ∂θ ∂ϕ r ˆ i . The relevant relations are Now we have to rewrite this using the normalized basis n ˆi , A = A˜i ei = Ai n where A˜r = Ar Then div A = = A˜ϕ = , 1 Aϕ r sin θ , 1 A˜θ = Aθ . r 1 ∂Aθ cot θ θ 2Ar 1 ∂Aϕ ∂Ar + + A + + = ∂r r ∂θ r r r sin θ ∂ϕ 1 ∂ 1 ∂ 1 ∂Aϕ 2 r r + Aθ · sin θ . A + 2 r ∂r r sin θ ∂ϕ r sin θ ∂θ Now we can derive ∆Ψ.
2), so we have (exactly as in the case of a gradient) two distinct notations for divergence ∂Ai + Γiji Aj . div A = ∇A = ∇i Ai = ∂xi Exercises: 1) * Finish calculation of ∆Ai (x) in polar coordinates. 19). 17). 3) Write general expression for ∇i Ai and derive it in the polar coordinates (the result can be checked by comparison with similar calculations in cylindric and spherical coordinates in 3D in Chapter 7). 4) The commutator of two covariant derivatives is defined as [∇i , ∇j ] = ∇i ∇j − ∇j ∇i .