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| Feb 23, 2013 at 19:12 | comment | added | Paul Reynolds | There are lots of nice explanations of torsion here mathoverflow.net/questions/20493/… although you may consider them to be advanced also. | |
| Feb 23, 2013 at 16:05 | comment | added | R S | Thanks. It is possible to explain this in simpler terms ("soldering form" seems to be advanced from the basic place in diff. geometry in which I now stand)? Or do you think a true understanding of the torsion tensor requires more advanced concepts? | |
| Feb 23, 2013 at 15:57 | history | answered | Peter Michor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |