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Riemannian Geometry is a subfield of Differential Geometry, which specifically studies "Riemannian Manifolds", manifolds with "Riemannian Metrics", which means that they are equipped with continuous inner products.

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Riemannian metric induced by a metric

Here is a closely related question that may have been what the OP was driving at. Suppose that you ONLY know a Riemannian manifold as a metric space---that is you know the point set and the distance b …
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Action of the group of isometries on a manifold

It is easy to see that any metrically homogeneous, locally compact, metric space, $X$, is complete. If $p$ is some point of $X$ then, by local compactness, for some $\epsilon > 0$, the closed $\epsilo …
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Global description of the Levi-Civita connection

See my response (number 4) to the MO question: Exponential map and covariant derivative There is a Math Review article by Kuranishi there of the paper "Sprays" by Ambrose, Singer, and Palais (in whi …
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