i think you will have to be more specific about what tools you need.
Many things in Maxima work identically to things in Macsyma.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu
> [mailto:maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu] On Behalf Of Shahir Molaei
> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 10:21 PM
> To: maxima at math.utexas.edu
> Subject: Matrices of indefinite size
>
> 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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