I've stumbled upon a frustrating bug in the FeynCalcExternal form of
D-dimensional Eps expressions. Essentially, the expressions behave
differently depending on how many of their indices are contracted with
four vectors (and which indices are contracted!).
Attached is a short notebook file that illustrates the point
concisely. Has anyone else run into this?
Thanks,
Alex Williamson
University of Toronto
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