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Hello.

I had a quick question relating to a confusion I had about the Einstein summation convention:

Is writing:

h_{ab}u^{a}u^{b} The same as writing: h_{ab}u^{b}u^{a}?

Where "_" is a subscript, and ^ indicates superscript.

Thanks!

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