Levi-Civita connection
On any Riemannian manifold , there is a unique torsion-free affine connection
on the tangent bundle of such that the covariant derivative
of the metric tensor is zero, i.e. is covariantly constant. This condition can be also be expressed in terms of the inner product operation induced by as follows: For allvector fields , one has
and
This connection is called the Levi-Civita connection.
In local coordinates , the Christoffel symbols (http://planetmath.org/Connection) are determined by