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At the begin of the more advanced part of the book, irreducible, i.e. symmetric traceless tensors of any rank are treated in this chapter. Products of irreducible tensors and contractions, a relation to Legendre polynomials as well as spherical components of tensors are pointed out. Cubic tensors and cubic harmonics associated with cubic symmetry are presented.
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Hess, S. (2015). Irreducible Tensors. In: Tensors for Physics. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12787-3_9
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