FCReplaceD[expr, rule]
replaces D
in expr
according to the supplied replacement rule
(e.g. D -> 4 - 2*Epsilon
) but doesn’t touch
D
inside Pair
s and DiracGamma
s,
i.e the dimension of scalar products, metric tensors and Dirac matrices
is unchanged. The latter can and should be done via
ChangeDimension
.
Applying the replacement rule directly to the expression doesn’t give the desired result
[D MTD[\[Mu], \[Nu]]]
FCI
% /. D -> 4 - 2 Epsilon
D g^{\mu \nu }
(4-2 \varepsilon ) g_{\{4-2 \varepsilon ,4-2 \varepsilon \}}{}^{\mu \nu }
With FCReplaceD
we get what we want
[D MTD[\[Mu], \[Nu]], D -> 4 - 2 Epsilon]
FCReplaceD
[%, 4] ChangeDimension
(4-2 \varepsilon ) g^{\mu \nu }
(4-2 \varepsilon ) \bar{g}^{\mu \nu }