Symmetric transverse traceless rank-2 tensor

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David Woodward

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Oct 17, 2015, 5:48:30 PM10/17/15
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Suppose we work in de Sitter space and we have an expression consisting of covariant derivatives, the metric tensor and a symmetric transverse traceless rank-2 tensor H_{\mu \nu}.
How can one tell Mathematica that H_{\mu \nu} is symmetric, transverse and traceless?
I mean, I use bgRules=SymmetricSpaceRules[CD, \Lambda], but what are the extraRules in SetOptions[ToBackground, BackgroundSolution -> bgRules, 
  ExtraRules -> extraRules]?
My goal is to use ToBackground and find the background value of the expression I mentioned at the beginning.

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David
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