What are the Christoffel Symbols? | Tensor Intuition

The Christoffel symbols come from taking the covariant derivative of a vector and using the product rule. Christoffel symbols indicate how much the basis vectors change from a coordinate change. This is important in curved space where the basis vectors will change from point to point.

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