Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2015/ia/paper-3/12a/c/iv/solution

True. Since and are antisymmetric, the matrix is antisymmetric. Invariance of contractions with every antisymmetric second-rank tensor gives for every antisymmetric test matrix . Such a matrix can be freely prescribed in one basis and then transformed to define a valid test tensor. Choose in that basis. Then
so and . Together with the given antisymmetry, this proves that is an antisymmetric second-rank tensor. The antisymmetric contraction test for an antisymmetric tensor works because the Frobenius inner product is nondegenerate on the antisymmetric subspace.

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