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    It is not the case that Cartan's moving frames formalism shows that a choice of tetrad field encodes additional geometric structure—specifically, a preferred parallelism—absent from the metric alone.

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    • 1.Any tetrad choice remains gauge-dependent; the claim of 'preferred parallelism' conflates a specific choice with objective geometric structure.
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    • 2.The metric alone determines the Levi-Civita connection uniquely; additional structure from tetrads is redundant mathematical freedom, not new geometry.
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    • 3.Torsion appears only if tetrads couple to fermions; metric-compatible, torsion-free theories show tetrads add no physically distinct structure.
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    • 1.Tetrads provide orthonormal frames at each point, enabling local Lorentz transformations that metric alone cannot specify without additional structure.
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    • 2.Cartan's formalism yields torsion and spin connection as independent geometric objects, which metric-only approaches must treat as derived, not fundamental.
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    • 3.Tetrad fields determine parallel transport via connection forms, establishing preferred parallelism that metric leaves underdetermined up to gauge freedom.
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