Einstein summation is a notational convention for simplifying expressions including summations of vectors, matrices, and general tensors. There are essentially three rules of Einstein summation notation, namely: 1. Repeated indices are implicitly summed over. 2. Each index can appear at most twice in any term. 3. Each term must contain identical non-repeated indices. The first item on the above list can be employed to greatly simplify and shorten equations involving tensors.

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Albert Einstein