Product Riemannian metric

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Product Riemannian metric by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-05 Updated 2026-10-06
The product of Riemannian manifolds has metric
The tangent summands are orthogonal, and positivity follows because a nonzero product tangent vector has a nonzero component. Its Levi-Civita connection is the product affine connection of the two factor Levi-Civita connections: mixed torsion is zero and metric compatibility follows from independence of the two coordinate sets.

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