How a quantity behaves under a change of basis vectors. This tag covers relativistic covariance, as well as contravariant and covariant tensors not necessarily in the context of relativity. DO NOT USE THIS TAG for statistical covariance.
Covariance describes the behavior of physical quantities under a change of basis. The tag is supposed to cover whatever-notion-the-physical-system-in-the-question-is-covariant-under, typically relativistic covariance, but also more abstractly, e.g., contravariant and covariant tensors not necessarily in the context of relativity.
In mathematically inclined texts, covariance is also used as a synonym for propagator.
DO NOT USE THIS TAG for statistical covariance. Use the statistics tag instead.