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In this section we introduce an important additional structure on differentiable manifolds, thus making it possible to define a “covariant derivative” which transforms tensor fields into other tensor fields.
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Straumann, N. (2004). Affine Connections. In: General Relativity. Texts and Monographs in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-11827-6_14
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