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Given that a local diffeomorphism is not necessarily a [global] diffeomorphism, I wonder if Einstein's GR in covariant under local diffeomorphisms of a Lorenzian manifold?

If so, why do we interpret general covariance as [global] diffeomorphism covariance and not local diffeomorphism covariance?

Bastam Tajik
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