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The Christoffel symbols

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Choreography is the art of composing dances and the recording of movements on paper by means of convenient signs and symbols. Consider for a moment a most disturbing and uncanny experience suffered by a well established choreographer. He was supposed to record on paper the movements of certain fairly simple dances, but in a faraway, strange place.

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Grøn, Ø., Næss, A. (2011). The Christoffel symbols. In: Einstein's Theory. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0706-5_6

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