Pseudo-Riemannian manifold
Definition
It is a smooth manifold
They are, in some sense, metric spaces: we can measure lengths.
A particular case are the Riemannian manifolds.
We can compute volumes in a natural way, and therefore we have a distinguished volume form in it.
They can have symmetry of a pseudo-Riemannian manifold.
Flat manifolds
A key feature is the Riemann curvature tensor. We say a pseudo-Riemannian manifold is flat (flat metric) when the Riemann curvature tensor vanishes identically or, equivalently, if it is locally isometric to Euclidean space (every point has a neighborhood that is isometric to an open subset of
In other words, the Riemann normal coordinates can be extended to a neighborhood, not only a point.
Interpretation as a Cartan geometry
It can be interpreted as a Cartan geometry.