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This tag is for questions on the meaning, history, and usage of various symbols and notation that are used to denote different quantities in physics. Don't forget to mention the reference, where you encountered those notations.

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When writing this Lorentz transform as a matrix why do we take the transpose?

To ensure this, the indices you sum over have to somehow be "next to each other" in the notation. … Although you say you do not understand how to go from tensor notation to matrix notation, this has actually nothing to do with the objects being tensors, so let's just drop the distinction between co- …
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