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Doing vector manipulations on Mathematica

This is hopefully a simpler version of this previous unanswered question of mine. Let me just focus on the two expressions $F_2^{(s)}$ and $F_3^{(s)}$ given in A.3 and A.4 of page 19 of this paper. ...
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How to represent and manipulate abstract indexed vector (or tensor) expressions?

I have a couple abstract indexed quantities, both differential elements $dx = dx^\mu e_\mu + x^\mu de_\mu$ $du = du^\mu e_\mu + u^\mu de_\mu$ I can compute the expression $(dx + du) \cdot (dx + du) ...