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Symbolic computations in differential geometry

Differential Geometry 2008-04-22 v1 Symbolic Computation

Abstract

We introduce the C++ library Wedge, based on GiNaC, for symbolic computations in differential geometry. We show how Wedge makes it possible to use the language C++ to perform such computations, and illustrate some advantages of this approach with explicit examples. In particular, we describe a short program to determine whether a given linear exterior differential system is involutive.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0804.3193,
  title  = {Symbolic computations in differential geometry},
  author = {Diego Conti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.3193},
  year   = {2008}
}

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14 pages, 1 figure

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