Covariant derivate problem (christoffel symbols)

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Homework Statement



I need to calculate \square A_\mu + R_{\mu \nu} A^\nu if \square = \nabla_\alpha \nabla^\alpha, and is the covariant derivate

SEE THIS PDF arXiv:0807.2528v1 i want to get the equation (5) from (3)



Homework Equations



A^{i}_{{;}{\alpha}} = \frac{{\partial}{A^{i}}}{{\partial}{x^{\alpha}}} + \Gamma^{i}_{{j}{\alpha}} A^{j}

Lool arXiv:hep-th/0504052v2 for the conections and christoffel symbols o ricci tensor components

The Attempt at a Solution



for example The 00 component for Ruv is

R_{\mu \nu} = -3(\dot{H}+H^2)

see the links for more compoents
 
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Do you see why only one equation remains?
How ##\square ## is expressed with low index nabla's only?
Do you know the expression for ##A_{{\alpha}{;}{\beta}}## ?

(I use latin indices for space components and greek indices for space-time components)

note: if you past an url it becomes clickable, for inline latex wrap it with ##.

http://arxiv.org/pdf/0807.2528v1

eq (8)
http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0504052v2
 
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