The Christoffel symbols

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The next step on our journey towards the solution of the field equations is to calculate the components of the Christoffel symbols .

We have

Of the total of forty independent components, only twelve are non- zero, for example

so

where is denoted by a prime. The rest of the components are [ Assignment 7]

where the dot denotes .