Hi,

Le lundi 30 mai 2016 17:31:14 UTC+2, Zach Elgood a écrit :
>
> Hello again,
> Thank you very much for the previous help. Some of the research I do 
> involves using actions to calculate things like the Euler Lagrange 
> equations. I was wondering if this is possible to do in Sage.
>

To my knowledge, no variational calculus is implemented in Sage yet. But 
this would be a nice project!
 

> For example, if I had the Lagrangian
>
> Nabla_mu(phi) Nabla^mu (phi)-m^2*phi^2
>
> how would I go about constructing one? I tried simply defining it, but I 
> keep getting the attribute 'sage.symbolic.expression.Expression' object 
> has no attribute '_domain' when I try and take the covariant derivative 
> of it.
>

A reason could be that phi has not been defined as a scalar field (i.e. as 
phi = M.scalar_field(...)), but merely as a symbolic expression. Is it the 
case?

Best wishes,

Eric.

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