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What is torsion in differential geometry intuitively?
Perhaps, the following two facts help to understand torsion:
1. Two connections are equal if and only if they have the same geodesics and equal torsions.
2. … For any connection there is a unique torsion-free connection with the same geodesics.
This is proved in Spivak, volume II, page 249. …
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