Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2023/iii/paper-309/1/a/i/solution

Fix the convention
Equivalently,
This defines the Riemann curvature tensor because it is -linear in : derivatives of a multiplying function cancel between the three terms. Thus its value at a point depends only on the three tangent vectors there, rather than their extensions.

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