Talk:Symmetric tensor

Whoever tagged this page probably should have added some notes in the talk page. ^_^ It's not clear why it needs cleaning up... while it provides almost no information, that's what the stub notice indicates. The only thing I see is that it perhaps implies that all tensors are second order. --Starwed 02:39, 16 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

This shouldn't be merged with symmetric matrix because a symmetric tensor of rank N, where N is not equal to 2, is a much different object than a symmetric matrix. I think there needs to be some clarification here, as the person who wrote it doesn't seem to understand the difference between a symmetric tensor and a symmetric tensor of rank 2 (i.e., a symmetric matrix).