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Taylor expansion of determinant of Riemannian metric in normal coordinates up to higher order
Let $(M,g)$ be an $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifold. Let $p\in M$, and let $\{x^i\}_{i=1}^n$ be normal coordinates centered around $p$.
Using Jacobi field, one can show that the metric $g$ has the ...