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Suppose I have a manifold and a vector bundle over it, but not a connection or a metric. Can I always find a connection on it that has a Riemann curvature tensor that is identically zero? If so, can I always find a connection that has both Riemann curvature and torsion tensors identically zero?

I've attempted to simply for the Christoffel symbols, but couldn't make headway in the equations.

Suppose I have a manifold, but not a connection or a metric. Can I always find a connection on it that has a Riemann curvature tensor that is identically zero? If so, can I always find a connection that has both Riemann curvature and torsion tensors identically zero?

I've attempted to simply for the Christoffel symbols, but couldn't make headway in the equations.

Suppose I have a manifold and a vector bundle over it, but not a connection or a metric. Can I always find a connection on it that has a Riemann curvature tensor that is identically zero? If so, can I always find a connection that has both Riemann curvature and torsion tensors identically zero?

I've attempted to simply for the Christoffel symbols, but couldn't make headway in the equations.

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Does every manifold have a flat connection?

Suppose I have a manifold, but not a connection or a metric. Can I always find a connection on it that has a Riemann curvature tensor that is identically zero? If so, can I always find a connection that has both Riemann curvature and torsion tensors identically zero?

I've attempted to simply for the Christoffel symbols, but couldn't make headway in the equations.