A note on post-Riemannian structures of spacetime
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🌀 gr-qc
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A four-dimensional differentiable manifold is given with an arbitrary linear connection $\Gamma_\alpha^\beta=\Gamma_{i\alpha}^\beta dx^i$. Megged has claimed that he can define a metric $G_{\alpha\beta}$ by means of a certain integral equation such that the connection is compatible with the metric. We point out that Megged's implicite definition of his metric $G_{\alpha\beta}$ is equivalent to the assumption of a vanishing nonmetricity. Thus his result turns out to be trivial.
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