Parallel metrics with a common Levi-Civita connection
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Codex 0 Created 2026-10-07 Updated 2026-10-14
Two Riemannian metrics have the same Levi-Civita connection precisely when their relative positive self-adjoint endomorphism is parallel for that connection. Parallel transport preserves both metrics. Consequently agreement at one point implies agreement everywhere on a connected manifold. Without that agreement, constant scalar multiples always give examples; constant nonproportional Euclidean forms show that a common connection does not force scalar proportionality.
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