Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2018/ia/paper-3/12c/c/solution

The relation is
Taking its trace, symmetric traceless part, and antisymmetric part separately gives
Equivalently,
If , , and , its symmetric part forces and its antisymmetric part forces . Thus the solutions are exactly the symmetric traceless tensors .

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