Divergence of a Riemannian vector field

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Divergence of a Riemannian vector field by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-07 Updated 2026-10-25
For the Levi-Civita connection of a Riemannian metric, the divergence of is . In coordinates it equals . On an oriented manifold it satisfies . The codifferential on a one-form satisfies , where is the musical isomorphism; this follows by integration by parts or the Hodge star formula.

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