Weyl Tensor calculations using Symbolic module

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import sympy

from sympy import cos, sin, sinh

from einsteinpy.symbolic import MetricTensor, WeylTensor



sympy.init_printing()

Defining the Anti-de Sitter spacetime Metric

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syms = sympy.symbols("t chi theta phi")

t, ch, th, ph = syms

m = sympy.diag(-1, cos(t) ** 2, cos(t) ** 2 * sinh(ch) ** 2, cos(t) ** 2 * sinh(ch) ** 2 * sin(th) ** 2).tolist()

metric = MetricTensor(m, syms)

Calculating the Weyl Tensor (with all indices covariant)

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weyl = WeylTensor.from_metric(metric)

weyl.tensor()
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$\displaystyle \left[\begin{matrix}\left[\begin{matrix}0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\end{matrix}\right] & \left[\begin{matrix}0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\end{matrix}\right] & \left[\begin{matrix}0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\end{matrix}\right] & \left[\begin{matrix}0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\end{matrix}\right]\\\left[\begin{matrix}0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\end{matrix}\right] & \left[\begin{matrix}0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\end{matrix}\right] & \left[\begin{matrix}0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\end{matrix}\right] & \left[\begin{matrix}0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\end{matrix}\right]\\\left[\begin{matrix}0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\end{matrix}\right] & \left[\begin{matrix}0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\end{matrix}\right] & \left[\begin{matrix}0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\end{matrix}\right] & \left[\begin{matrix}0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\end{matrix}\right]\\\left[\begin{matrix}0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\end{matrix}\right] & \left[\begin{matrix}0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\end{matrix}\right] & \left[\begin{matrix}0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\end{matrix}\right] & \left[\begin{matrix}0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\\0 & 0 & 0 & 0\end{matrix}\right]\end{matrix}\right]$
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weyl.config
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'llll'
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