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The program Ortocartan for algebraic calculations in relativity has just been implemented in the Codemist Standard Lisp and can now be used under the Windows 98 and Linux operating systems. The paper describes the new facilities and…

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The classical Cartan's structural equations show in a compact way the relation between a connection and its curvature, and reveals their geometric interpretation in terms of moving frames. In order to study the mathematical properties of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-06-26 Ovidiu Cristinel Stoica

Einstein-Cartan theory is formulated in (1+2)-dimensions using the algebra of exterior differential forms. A Dirac spinor is coupled to gravity and the field equations are obtained by a variational principle. The space-time torsion is found…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-05 T. Dereli , N. Ozdemir , O. Sert

We present FormTracer, a high-performance, general purpose, easy-to-use Mathematica tracing package which uses FORM. It supports arbitrary space and spinor dimensions as well as an arbitrary number of simple compact Lie groups. While…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-07-26 Anton K. Cyrol , Mario Mitter , Nils Strodthoff

This article summarizes new features and enhancements of the first major update of Package-X. Package-X 2.0 can now generate analytic expressions for arbitrarily high rank dimensionally regulated tensor integrals with up to four distinct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-18 Hiren H. Patel

We present the tensor computer algebra package xTras, which provides functions and methods frequently needed when doing (classical) field theory. Amongst others, it can compute contractions, make Ans\"atze, and solve tensorial equations. It…

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We provide a computer algebra package called Random Tensor Network Integrator (RTNI). It allows to compute averages of tensor networks containing multiple Haar-distributed random unitary matrices and deterministic symbolic tensors. Such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-08 Motohisa Fukuda , Robert Koenig , Ion Nechita

Graphical calculus is an intuitive visual notation for manipulating tensors and index contractions. Using graphical calculus leads to simple and memorable derivations, and with a bit of practice one can learn to prove complex identities…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-05 Filippo M. Miatto

Recently, the tensor network states (TNS) methods have proven to be very powerful tools to investigate the strongly correlated many-particle physics in one and two dimensions. The implementation of TNS methods depends heavily on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-23 Shao-Jun Dong , Wen-Yuan Liu , Chao Wang , Yongjian Han , G-C Guo , Lixin He

We present an easy-to-use, Python-based framework that allows a researcher to automate their computational simulations. In particular the framework facilitates assembling several long-running computations and producing various plots from…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Prabhu Ramachandran

Conan is a C++ library created for the accurate and efficient modelling, inference and analysis of complex networks. It implements the generation and modification of graphs according to several published models, as well as the unexpensive…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2010-12-02 Ricardo Honorato-Zimmer , Bryan Reynaert , Ignacio Vergara , Tomas Perez-Acle

The long standing problem of the relations among the scalar invariants of the Riemann tensor is computationally solved for all 6x10^23 objects with up to 12 derivatives of the metric. This covers cases ranging from products of up to 6…

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\texttt{aurel} is an open-source Python package designed to \emph{au}tomatically calculate \emph{rel}ativistic quantities. It uses an efficient, flexible and user-friendly caching and dependency-tracking system, ideal for managing the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-13 Robyn L. Munoz , Christian T. Byrnes , Will J. Roper

We present a Mathematica package for doing computations with gamma matrices, spinors, tensors and other objects, in any dimension and signature. The approach we use is based on defining the commutation relations of the relevant matrices,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-03 Pyry Kuusela

In the recent years there has been an enormous development in the evaluation of higher order quantum corrections. An essential ingredient in the practical calculations is provided by vacuum diagrams, i.e. integrals without external momenta.…

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We discuss the generalized Newton-Cartan geometries that can serve as gravitational background fields for particles and strings. In order to enable us to define affine connections that are invariant under all the symmetries of the structure…

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In this paper, the notion of strongly typed language will be borrowed from the field of computer programming to introduce a calculational framework for linear algebra and tensor calculus for the purpose of detecting errors resulting from…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-12-12 Victor Dods

This paper describes a package for calculations of expressions with Dirac matrixes. Advantages to existing similar packages are described. MatrixExp package is intended for simplification of complex expressions involving $\gamma$-matrixes,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 V. A. Poghosyan

In this short pedagogical note we clarify some subtleties concerning the symmetries of the coefficients of a Riemann-Cartan connection and the symmetries of the coefficients of the contorsion tensor that has been a source of some confusion…

General Physics · Physics 2011-09-27 J. Fernando T. Giglio , Waldyr A. Rodrigues