Defining Bianchi identities for expressions w/o the Levi-Civita tensor

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Sukruti

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Mar 5, 2025, 11:47:59 AM3/5/25
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Hello,

Any suggestions for how to define the two Bianchi identities shown in the attachment, in order to implement them on expressions that do not consist of the Levi-Civita tensor?

RiemannSimplify can implement the Bianchi identities but it works only for expressions which are exclusively in terms of the curvature tensors/scalar. I need to use the identities for expressions consisting of derivatives of a scalar field along with the curvature tensors/scalar, so I'm looking for a way to define the two Bianchi identities.

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Sukruti
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