How Do You Derive the Riemann Component?

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This appears in the Charles&Wheeler book exercise 11.3.
Can someone please show how to write
245663
as
245664
?
 

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Just apply the definition of ##\nabla_a e_b## in terms of the connection coefficients. This is the only thing there is to it.
 

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