Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2026/ii/paper-3/37a/c/solution

Under a coordinate change, the inhomogeneous second-derivative terms arising from each partial derivative cancel between and . The remainder transforms with one contravariant Jacobian, so the commutator is a vector field.
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