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An affine connection is a metric connection for the Riemannian metric when
Equivalently the induced covariant derivative of the metric tensor satisfies . This is metric compatibility; it imposes no condition on the torsion tensor. A Levi-Civita connection has the additional property of being a torsion-free connection.

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