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Is there a consensus about the meaning of the Christoffel symbols' indices?
This is from Giancarlo Bernacchi's book "Tensors made easy":

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And this is from Daniel Fleisch's book "A Student's Guide to Vectors and Tensors":
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The meaning of the two lower indices is exchanged in the two explanations. Is one of them correct and the other one wrong, or is there no consensus about this?
 
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The Christoffel symbols are given by$$\Gamma^i_{jk}=\frac 12g^{il}\left(
\partial_jg_{kl}
+\partial_jg_{lk}
-\partial_lg_{jk}
\right)$$This is symmetric in the lower indices, so it makes no difference which of those indices you define as doing what.
 
I see, thank you.
 
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