 Solution

Use the geodesic Lagrangianwhere here the overdot on a coordinate means differentiation with respect to the affine parameter. Applying the Euler-Lagrange equation to each coordinate and comparing with the geodesic equationdetermines the Christoffel symbols. To display derivatives of the metric coefficients unambiguously, write ${\lambda }_t={\partial }_t\lambda$, ${\lambda }_r={\partial }_r\lambda$, and similarly for $\mu$. The nonzero symbols, together with those obtained by symmetry in the two lower indices, areThis is the Christoffel symbols of a diagonal spherical spacetime metric.