The chain rule gives
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Thus
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Differentiation with respect to a contravariant coordinate has a lower transformation index. In inertial Cartesian coordinates in Minkowski spacetime, no connection term is needed for this coordinate transformation of a derivative acting on a scalar; Lorentz transformations have constant Jacobians.

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