That's what I was thinking. I opened an issue as you suggested
to discuss this.

Davide Pittet

On Mon, Apr 8, 2024 at 8:46 PM Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote:

> I would open an issue to discuss this, if you haven't already. These
> sorts of issues relating to what Add class is used to represent sums
> generally end up being pretty tricky and involve a lot of subtleties.
>
> Aaron Meurer
>
> On Mon, Apr 8, 2024 at 12:33 PM Davide Pittet <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > I think that the main problem is that we "delegate" the sum of tensors
> to the Add class, allowing to sum apples with pears; e.g. we can create an
> object that is the sum of a vector and a covector like e_x + dx, when they
> really belong to different spaces, without getting an error. This reflects
> in cascade to the whole submodule: the sum of two tensor products is a
> tensor and should be treated as such, not as a generic Add instance,
> because there are constraints that are not taken into account; extending
> the previous example, we cannot sum TensorProduct(e_x, dx) with
> TensorProduct(dx, e_:x).
> >
> > Then, we have to implement the associativity of the tensor product and
> the distributivity of the tensor product wrt the sum.
> >
> > Once this is fixed we have to put a constraint on the number and the
> type of the arguments of the __call__ method and this should solve the
> problems pointed out on GitHub.
> >
> > Davide Pittet
> >
> > Il giorno lunedì 8 aprile 2024 alle 10:06:46 UTC+2 [email protected] ha
> scritto:
> >>
> >> Your contributions are definitely welcome, although it would be a good
> >> idea to first lay out exactly what changes you want to make, either
> >> here or on an issue. If any of the changes are controversial, or would
> >> break the current API, we should iron them out before you potentially
> >> waste a lot of time coding them.
> >>
> >> If there's any changes you want to make that aren't potentially
> >> controversial, like bugfixes, you don't need to open issues for them
> >> first.
> >>
> >> Aaron Meurer
> >>
> >> On Sun, Apr 7, 2024 at 2:02 PM Davide Pittet <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Hello everyone,
> >> >
> >> > following up the discussion on GitHub related to the WedgeProduct
> bug, I started exploring the code around the implementation of wedge and
> tensor products. I think there are deep problems with the way tensor
> products (but not only) are implemented in the diffgeom submodule.
> >> >
> >> > I would like to address these issues, but it would be my first
> contribution and I do not think it will be a simple task. I have a good
> knowledge of the theoretical field as my MSc thesis applied differential
> geometry to particle physics and I would like to help, but I would surely
> appreciate some guidance with the code, primarely on the direction we want
> to follow.
> >> >
> >> > Davide Pittet
> >> >
> >> >
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