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Why is it important that partial derivatives commute?

Ultimately, to my mind, the best explanation for the torsion-free requirement comes from Cartan's moving frame technique. … . $$ If the torsion is zero, the above equality looses a term, and one obtains rather easily Cartan's structural equations of a Riemann manifold. …
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