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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2008 ia Paper 3 10C i Solution by
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Both the Levi-Civita symbol and are invariant under proper rotations. Their tensor contractionis consequently an isotropic vector. The introductory proof shows that it must vanish, so .
For the displayed combination of Kronecker deltas, the three terms areIn each term the tensor contraction repeats two indices of the Levi-Civita symbol; each term is zero. This verifies the identity for arbitrary .
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