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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2015 ia Paper 3 12A b Solution by
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The first index of the printed Levi-Civita symbol is fixed at . Thus the matrix in the first orthonormal basis isThe specified matrix in the other basis is , with determinant one. If this array were a Cartesian second-rank tensor, an orthogonal basis change would give , andThe determinants disagree, proving the array is not a tensor. The fixed index matters: the TeX aid drops it, but the original PDF clearly prints .
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