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Three principal invariants with respect to this quantity are named for Chern-Pontryagin, Euler, and Kretschmann. A renormalization method named for this quantity is used to find the order parameter of topological phase transitions. Non-zero values of this quantity necessitate generalizing the derivative operator to the (*) covariant derivative. The affine connections vanish for systems in which this quantity is equal to zero. The contracted Bianchi identity relates a tensor and a scalar describing this property, both of which are named for Ricci. (-5[1])Non-zero values of this quantity cause gravitational lensing, or the bending of light. When this quantity is non-zero, straight lines are generalized into geodesics. For 10 points, what quantity is zero for (10[1])flat spacetime? ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

ANSWER: curvature [or curvature invariants; or curvature renormalization group method; or Ricci curvature; or curvature of spacetime]
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