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What is torsion in differential geometry intuitively?

Here is an example which I found useful when learning about torsion. Consider $\mathbb{R}^3$. … So the geodesics are straight lines, and this connection preserves the standard metric, but it has torsion and is thus not the Levi-Cevita connection. …
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