The zero components of an antisymmetric tensor correctly vanish, but not if I take their derivative (ToCanonical in xCoba)

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Níckolas de Aguiar Alves

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May 2, 2026, 2:40:09 PM (5 days ago) May 2
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Hi there! 
I'm working with antisymmetric tensors. Let us call it F_ab for now. In the middle of my computation, I evaluate it in components. I noticed that F_00, for example, is simplified to zero when I call ToCanonical, as I would expect. However, this does not happen with \partial_1 F_00. I suppose this simplification is not trivial in the sense that e_1^a e_0^b e_0^c \partial_a F_bc is generally different from e_1^a \partial_a (e_0^b e_0^c F_bc), and perhaps \partial_1 F_00 denotes the first instead of the second? 

What precisely is going on in this case? How can I handle it? 

I am attaching a minimal working example. 

Thanks in advance!
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