Let be a vector field in cylindrical coordinates.
From Table 9.3.3, the curl of F is given by ≡
From Table 9.3.2, the divergence of is given by
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where the equality of the mixed partial derivatives (guaranteed, for example, by continuity of the second partial derivatives) causes three of the four terms to vanish.