On the account of the symmetry of

$$ \begin{Bmatrix}\beta & &\kappa\ \alpha&\end{Bmatrix} $$

with reference to the indices β and κ, the third member of the right

hand side vanishes when A^{αβ} is an antisymmetrical tensor, which we

assume here; the second member can be transformed according to (29a); we

therefore get

(40) $$ A^{\alpha} = \frac{1}{\sqrt{-g}} \frac{\partial(\sqrt{-g}

A^{\alpha\beta})}{\partial x_{\beta}} $$

This is the expression of the divergence of a contravariant six-vector.

_Divergence of the mixed tensor of the second rank._

Let us form the reduction of (39) with reference to the indices α and σ,

we obtain remembering (29a)

(41) $$ \sqrt{-g} A_{\mu} = \frac{\partial(\sqrt{-g}

A^{\sigma}_{\mu})}{\partial x_{\sigma}} - \begin{Bmatrix}\sigma & &

\mu\ \tau&\end{Bmatrix} \sqrt{-g} A^{\sigma}_{\tau} $$

If we introduce into the last term the contravariant tensor A^{ρσ} =

_g_^{ρτ} A^{σ}_{τ}, it takes the form

$$ - \begin{bmatrix}\sigma & & \mu\ \rho&\end{bmatrix} \sqrt{-g}

A^{\rho\sigma} $$

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