Local expansion of the bivector of geodesic parallel displacement (Q2461061): Difference between revisions

We obtain a local expansion of the bivector (or propagator) of parallel transport of a vector from point \(x\) to point \(\widetilde{x}\) along a non-null geodesic in powers of coordinate differences of these points. It is assumed that the absolute value of the interval between the points is much smaller than the characteristic scale of the space-time curvature. The result is correct in an arbitrary coordinate system and for an arbitrary (but satisfying to above-mentioned condition) difference of coordinates of the separated points.