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Christoffel symbols of a radially conformal polar metric (ds2=e2χ(r)(dr2+r2dθ2))

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For the displayed metric tensor, its inverse has components grr=e−2χ and gθθ=e−2χ/r2. The nonzero second-kind Christoffel symbols are Γrrr​=χ′, Γrθθ​=−r−r2χ′ and Γθrθ​=Γθθr​=1/r+χ′. They follow by differentiating the two diagonal metric entries and raising the first index of the first-kind connection coefficients. Polar coordinates require treating r=0 separately.

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