 Interior product (source code)

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= Interior product
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= Interior product of a differential form
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The interior product contracts a differential form with a vector field in its first argument:
$$
(\iota_X\alpha)(X_2,\ldots,X_k)=\alpha(X,X_2,\ldots,X_k).
$$

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