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Nov 29, 2019 at 17:26 comment added Deane Yang You could do this without using local coordinates. However, since you'll need to integrate by parts and permute the covariant derivatives, lower order terms involving the curvature and its covariant derivatives will appear. The proof is more or less just as messy as using local coordinates.
Apr 3, 2019 at 12:27 comment added Deane Yang It suffices to do it in local coordinates.
Mar 5, 2019 at 9:29 comment added Δημήτρης Ο This works in the second order case (after providing a bit of detail). But I was asking for an approach that would cover every case and would not depend on expressions of local coordinates.
Mar 4, 2019 at 3:19 history answered Ryan Unger CC BY-SA 4.0