For starters I am totally new to maxima. I read an article in which the author had mentioned the point that they had been able to define and work with matrices of indefinite size in "Macsyma" and as an extrapolation, I thought that the same should also be possible in Maxima.
Now I wanted to know if this is actually feasible in Maxima so that I start to learn the language.
My problem is to introduce and compute the inverse of a rather complicated black hole metric in 2n+1 dimensions and then look at its near-horizon behavior in its 'simplified' form. I used to solve the problem for given small n with the help of Mathematica, but unfortunately programs such as MATLAB, Maple and Mathematica do not provide tools for this level of abstraction.
I would appreciate any probable point or direction.
Regards,
Shahir Molaei
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