Transformation of the affine connection

[ehrenfest]

Homework Statement

Can someone explain what they mean at the bottom of the page "by swapping derivatives with respect to a and x' " and in general how they arrived at equation 3.17?

Homework Equations

The Attempt at a Solution

 

[ehrenfest]

can people see the attachment okay?

 

[ehrenfest]

anyone?

 

[nrqed]

Homework Statement

Can someone explain what they mean at the bottom of the page "by swapping derivatives with respect to a and x' " and in general how they arrived at equation 3.17?

Homework Equations

The Attempt at a Solution

I have to admit that I am a bit puzzled by this. I don't see how a minus sign may be generated even if one relabels the dummy indices, use the chain rules to go from x to c', etc. I must be missing something. I hope someone else can jump in.

 

[nhanle]

I have the same problem, can anyone help us?