I am currently reading through a proof of Proposition 6 in
Chernoff's theorem and discrete time approximations of Brownian motion on manifolds OG Smolyanov, H Weizsäcker, O Wittich - Potential Analysis
which is relating the geodesic distance in a Riemannian manifold $L$ to the geodesic distance in a Riemannian manifold $M$ with $L$ embedded in $M$ via $\phi:L\rightarrow M$.
Let $\xi$ denote Riemannian normal coordinates in $L$ and $\eta$ denote Riemannian normal coordinates in $M$. Throughout, all indexing variables using latin characters (e.g. $a,b,u,v$) will range from $1$ to $\dim(L)$ and all greek characters (e.g. $\alpha,\beta, \rho,\mu$) range from $1$ to $\dim(M)$.
In one of the final lines of the proof, we are trying to show that $$\left(\frac{\partial^2g_{ab}^L}{\partial\xi^u\partial\xi^v}-\frac{\partial^2g_{\alpha\beta}^M}{\partial\xi^\rho\partial\xi^\mu}\frac{\partial\phi^\rho}{\partial\xi^u} \frac{\partial\phi^\mu}{\partial\xi^v} \frac{\partial\phi^\alpha}{\partial\xi^a} \frac{\partial\phi^\beta}{\partial\xi^b}\right)(0)\xi^a\xi^b \xi^u\xi^v=0$$.
It is stated that by relating the partial derivatives of the metric tensor to curvature using the Taylor Expansion: $$ g_{ab}(\xi)=\delta_{ab}+\frac{1}{3} R_{auvb}(0)\xi^u\xi^v +O(|\xi|^3)$$
we obtain $$\left(\frac{\partial^2g_{ab}^L}{\partial\xi^u\partial\xi^v}-\frac{\partial^2g_{\alpha\beta}^M}{\partial\xi^\rho\partial\xi^\mu}\frac{\partial\phi^\rho}{\partial\xi^u} \frac{\partial\phi^\mu}{\partial\xi^v} \frac{\partial\phi^\alpha}{\partial\xi^a} \frac{\partial\phi^\beta}{\partial\xi^b}\right)(0)\xi^a\xi^b \xi^u\xi^v=2\left(R_{auvb}-R_{\alpha\rho\mu\beta}\frac{\partial\phi^\rho}{\partial\xi^u} \frac{\partial\phi^\mu}{\partial\xi^v} \frac{\partial\phi^\alpha}{\partial\xi^a} \frac{\partial\phi^\beta}{\partial\xi^b}\right)(0)\xi^a\xi^b \xi^u\xi^v.$$
I see that $2R_{auvb}$ is the second order term in the Taylor expansion of $g^L_{ab}$ and thus should be the same as $\frac{\partial^2g_{ab}^L}{\partial\xi^u\partial\xi^v}(0)$.
However, this seems strange to me, given the classical formula for the components of the curvature tensor (where Christoffel symbols vanish): $$ R_{auvb}=\frac{1}{2}\left(\frac{\partial^2g_{ab}}{\partial\xi^u\partial\xi^v}+ \frac{\partial^2g_{uv}}{\partial\xi^a\partial\xi^b}- \frac{\partial^2g_{av}}{\partial\xi^b\partial\xi^u}- \frac{\partial^2g_{ub}}{\partial\xi^a\partial\xi^v}\right)$$
This should suggest that the final three terms cancel each other out, but I can't see a reason why that would occur.