I come from before the times of symbolic tensors in Mathematica, and am used to working with concrete tensors and custom commands to contract them using Transpose, Dot, etc. I recently realized that Mathematica now allows you to work (nicely?) with symbolic tensors, but I am struggling a bit to understand the use case of purely symbolic tensors. Does anybody have a nice example of such a thing? To elaborate, for me an obvious use case would be to consider ``` $Assumptions = {m \[Element] Matrices[{4, 4}, Reals, Antisymmetric[{1, 2}]], v \[Element] Vectors[4, Reals]} mvv=TensorProduct[m,v,v]; TensorContract[mvv,{{1,3},{2,4}}] ``` and get zero. Unfortunately things do not seem to be defined for this [they are, see answer below!]. Not even (the completely obvious) ``` TensorContract[m,{1,2}] ``` gives zero. I am not looking for an explanation of how to implement this in Mathematica, I am just wondering whether someone can point out a nice example where working with tensors symbolically offers a particular advantage. (Also, any comments on why TensorContract does not come with a version that takes two tensors and contracts them in a given way? am I missing some obvious built-in function?)