Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2017 / iii / Paper 312 / 1 / a / i

Using the normalization of the timelike unit normal, the spatial projection tensor satisfiesLikewise $P^{\mu }{}_{\alpha }{n}^{\alpha }=0$ and $P^{\mu }{}_{\alpha }{P}^{\alpha }{}_{\nu }=P^{\mu }{}_{\nu }$. The spacetime form of the induced metric is thereforeIts restriction to the slice is the given three-metric. Metric compatibility of the four-dimensional Levi-Civita connection givesApply the three projectors defining the spatial covariant derivative. In the first summand $P^{\beta }{}_j{n}_{\beta }=0$, and in the second $P^{\alpha }{}_i{n}_{\alpha }=0$. Both summands vanish, soThis proves the metric compatibility of the spatial covariant derivative without treating the spatial projection tensor itself as covariantly constant.