pullback-pushforward-notation | Parallel Transport

replied to a post on Twitter with

because it is consistent with the index positions for objects being pulled-back, forms, vs objects being pushed-forward, vectors.

replied on Twitter with

He could have warned us that this is opposite of everyone else’s convention 😭

replied on Twitter with

there are worse convention-violations in GR; signature, Riemann tensor, extrinsic curvature… comparatively this is not a big deal!