= Christoffel symbols of a spatially flat FLRW metric
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{title2=$\Gamma^0{}_{ij}=aa'\delta_{ij}/c^2,\quad\Gamma^i{}_{0j}=\Gamma^i{}_{j0}=(a'/a)\delta^i{}_j$}
For coordinates $(t,x,y,z)$ and line element $ds^2=c^2dt^2-a^2(t)d\mathbf x^2$, these are the nonzero <Christoffel symbols>. The prime means differentiation with respect to $t$, and coordinate zero is $t$, not $ct$. They follow either from the metric-derivative formula or the <Euler-Lagrange equations> for the affine <geodesic Lagrangian>. Both mixed lower-index orders must be counted to obtain the factor of two in the spatial <geodesic equation>.
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