synthetic differential geometry
Introductions
from point-set topology to differentiable manifolds
geometry of physics: coordinate systems, smooth spaces, manifolds, smooth homotopy types, supergeometry
Differentials
Tangency
The magic algebraic facts
Theorems
Axiomatics
Models
differential equations, variational calculus
Chern-Weil theory, ∞-Chern-Weil theory
Cartan geometry (super, higher)
On a (pseudo)Riemannian manifold the Weitzenböck connection is the affine connection on the tangent bundle which has vanishing curvature but possibly non-vanishing torsion.
This is in contrast to the Levi-Civita connection, for which it is the other way around.
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