You can get the tuple of factors of your expression:

In [9]: t.args
Out[9]: (4, metric(i4, i5), p(L_0), q(-L_0))



Slice away the terms you don't want, and multiply by something else:

In [20]: prod(t.args[:2]) * other
Out[20]: (4*other)*metric(i4, i5)




On Wednesday, 9 March 2016 21:24:38 UTC+1, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Is there currently any possibility to replace subexpressions in tensor 
> expressions? I am trying to evaluate Feynman diagrams; computing the 
> gamma_trace is easy, but how do i substitute the fourvector products 
> (tensor multiplications) that occur in the end?
>
> Here is an example
> from sympy import *
> from sympy.physics.hep.gamma_matrices import GammaMatrix as G
> from sympy.tensor.tensor import tensor_indices, tensorhead, TensMul
> init_printing()
>
> p, q = tensorhead('p, q', [G.LorentzIndex], [[1]])
> i0,i1,i2,i3,i4,i5 = tensor_indices('i0:6', G.LorentzIndex)
>
> ps = p(i0)*G(-i0)*q(i0)*G(-i0)*G.LorentzIndex.metric(i4, i5)
> t = G.gamma_trace(ps)
> t
>
> which yields
> 4∗metric(i4,i5)∗p(L0)∗q(−L0)
>
> Now how can i replace p*q with another expression?
>

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