An affine tensor is a tensor that corresponds to certain allowable linear coordinate transformations, , where the determinant of is nonzero. This transformation takes the rectangular coordinate system into the coordinate system having oblique axes. In this way an affine tensor can be seen as a special kind of Cartesian tensor.
These tensors have the Jacobians,
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The transformation laws for affine contravariant (tangent) tensors are
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and so on, and the transformation laws for affine covariants (covectors) tensors are
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and so on.
The transformation laws for mixed affine tensors are
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