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Invariants of tensors

In mathematics, in the fields of multilinear algebra and representation theory, the principal invariants of the second rank tensor are the coefficients of the characteristic polynomial , where is the identity operator and represent the polynomial's eigenvalues. More broadly, any scalar-valued function is an invariant of if and only if for all orthogonal . This means that a formula expressing an invariant in terms of components, , will give the same result for all Cartesian bases. For example, even though individual diagonal components of will change with a change in basis, the sum of diagonal components will not change. (Wikipedia).

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