Relation To Differential Geometry
On a manifold, locally we may assign a tangent surface spanned by a set of basis vectors . We can associate the components of a metric tensor, the Christoffel symbols, and the Riemann tensor as follows:
These relations embed the theory of differential geometry within geometric calculus.
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