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Choose a basis of $T_{p}M$ and use the affine exponential map to define affine normal coordinates. Its differential at zero is the identity, so the inverse function theorem gives a chart near $p$. By part (iii), radial geodesics have coordinates $x^{\mu }(s)=s{X}^{\mu }$. Their geodesic equations at $p$ imply ${\Gamma }^{\lambda }{}_{\mu \nu }(p)X^{\mu }{X}^{\nu }=0$ for every $X$. The polarization identity therefore gives ${\Gamma }^{\lambda }{}_{(\mu \nu )}(p)=0$.

The disformation tensor $W_{\mu \nu }{}^{\lambda }$ is symmetric in $\mu ,\nu$, whereas $T_{\mu \nu }{}^{\lambda }$ is antisymmetric. Also $T_{\nu }{}^{\lambda }{}_{\mu }=-T^{\lambda }{}_{\nu \mu }$. Taking the symmetric part of the corrected affine connection decomposition consequently gives the normal-coordinate identityThus the final identity in the PDF is correct after the half-factor repair in part (i). In general ${\Gamma }^{\lambda }{}_{\mu \nu }(p)=\frac{1}{2}{T}_{\mu \nu }{}^{\lambda }(p)$ in the paper's convention, rather than zero. Neither $S$ nor the first derivatives of the metric tensor need vanish in these affine normal coordinates. With the Levi-Civita connection, both torsion and nonmetricity vanish and the usual vanishing of the Christoffel symbols is recovered.