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Preserving Cartesian lengths and Euclidean inner products requires an orthogonal matrix:
Its determinant is . Relative to an originally right-handed frame, gives a right-handed frame and a left-handed frame. More generally, this sign determines whether the two frames have the same or opposite orientation.
The tensor component transformation law is
For a tensor field, the components are compared at the same physical point, whose coordinates satisfy .

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