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Sep 9, 2010 at 13:09 vote accept Willie Wong
Sep 9, 2010 at 13:09 comment added Willie Wong I'm accepting this one since it is probably the easiest to implement in the case I am considering; also because Deane and Sergei both gave essentially the same answer in their comments. Thanks to everyone who helped out. Cheers.
Sep 8, 2010 at 21:49 comment added Tom LaGatta Willie, I'm certain that the full Levi-Civita connection is unnecessary-- it's just the one that most readily came to mind. I would not at all be surprised if this is equivalent to a Finsler-geometry notion of smoothness.
Sep 8, 2010 at 18:33 comment added Willie Wong If I pare this down a bit, it seems to be equivalent to what Sergei Ivanov proposed in the comments above.
Sep 8, 2010 at 18:25 comment added Willie Wong I rather like this idea. I am wondering if perhaps the use of the Levi-Civita connection is unnecessary. It seems to me that a change to a different torsion-free connection should only introduce an O(t) error term. Ideally the notion of smoothness should be independent of the actual choice of connection.
Sep 8, 2010 at 17:33 history edited Tom LaGatta CC BY-SA 2.5
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Sep 8, 2010 at 16:32 history answered Tom LaGatta CC BY-SA 2.5