Kronecker-Delta / Levi-Civita tensor relation

kronecker-deltatensors

I have a quite simple computation question:

Given is the following relation:

$$ \epsilon_{ijk}\epsilon_{ilm} = \delta_{jl}\delta_{km} – \delta_{jm}\delta_{kl} $$

And the computation steps:

$$i\hbar\left(\epsilon_{njk}\epsilon_{nmi} \ r_kp_m – \epsilon_{klj}\epsilon_{kin} \ r_np_l \right) \ \ (1)$$
$$i\hbar\left[ \left(r_ip_j – r_np_n\delta_{ij} \right) – \left(r_jp_i – r_np_n\delta_{ij} \right) \right] \ \ (2)$$

Where $r_{index}$ and $p_{index}$ are just vector components.

How do I get from $(1)$ to $(2)$ ?

This is from a Quantum Mechanics Problem but my Problem is rather mathematical.

Best Answer

We have \begin{align*} \epsilon_{njk}\epsilon_{nmi} r_kp_m &= (\delta_{jm}\delta_{ki}-\delta_{ji}\delta_{km})r_kp_m\\ &=r_ip_j-\delta_{ij}r_kp_k \end{align*} and similarly $$ \epsilon_{klj}\epsilon_{kin} \ r_np_l=\delta_{ij}r_np_n-r_jp_i. $$

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