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Lie derivatives and types

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acts on covariant symmetric two-tensors by and on contravariant symmetric tensor densities of weight one by . For the flow of , for every tensor density . Metrics and fluctuations are covariant tensors; Euler derivatives with respect to them, in particular , , , , and the gauge-fixing derivative below, are contravariant tensor densities. When is written on either side of such an operator, it acts in the type of its argument. The two-jet law of xe:ward is the expansion for .