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In this chapter we officially define Riemannian metrics, and discuss some of the basic computational techniques associated with them and some standard methods for constructing them. At the end of the chapter, we discuss some important generalizations of Riemannian metrics—most importantly, pseudo-Riemannian metrics.
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Lee, J.M. (2018). Riemannian Metrics. In: Introduction to Riemannian Manifolds. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 176. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91755-9_2
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