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This document provides an overview of curvature and the covariant derivative in general relativity. It discusses: - How the covariant derivative is constructed to transform as a tensor and reduce to the partial derivative in flat space. This involves introducing connection coefficients. - How the connection coefficients transform and how they are related for derivatives of vectors versus one-forms. - In general relativity, the connection coefficients are uniquely determined by requiring the connection

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