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The Weyl Identity (as orignally stated by H. Weyl and used by A. Winter) is not totally correct. Presented here is the correct version of the Identity, a concise proof of it and some applications.
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Goldstein, E., Katzen, M. On Weyl's identity. Annali di Matematica 87, 287–298 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02411982
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