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For spherical coordinates this is what I found: ##ds^2 = dr^2 + r^2 d\theta^2 + r^2 sin\theta^2 d\phi^2## ##\Gamma^r_{\theta \theta} = -r \\ \Gamma^r_{\phi \phi} = -rsin^2 \theta \\ \Gamma^\theta_{r \theta} = \Gamma^\theta_{\theta r} = \frac{1}{r} \\ \Gamma^\theta_{\phi \phi} = -sin\theta...

Ahh, I see was just looking at christoffel equation while doing derivatives in head and forgot to carry the negative. Thank you.

Just started self teaching myself differential geometry and tried to find the christoffel symbols of the second kind for 2d polar coordinates. I am checking to see if I did everything correctly. With a line element of: therefore the metric should be: The christoffel symbols of the second kind...