Blindness of symmetric contraction tests to antisymmetric arrays

ID: blindness-of-symmetric-contraction-tests-to-antisymmetric-arrays

The Frobenius inner product of a symmetric matrix and an antisymmetric matrix is zero. Thus invariant contractions of an array with all symmetric second-rank tensors test only its symmetric part; an arbitrary basis-dependent antisymmetric part is invisible. A nonzero antisymmetric matrix in one basis and the zero matrix in another passes all such tests with scalar zero but is not a Cartesian second-rank tensor.

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