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by cfgauss2718 671 days ago
Can you provide some examples of important tensors in physics for which the underlying vector space is infinite dimensional? I’m most familiar with the setting of tensor fields on manifolds, in which case the vector bundle consists of finite dimensional vector spaces. Nevertheless, I suppose in the absence of a pseudo-Riemannian metric one lacks a natural isomorphism between vectors/dual vectors. Does this “bidual” distinction arise in that case as well?