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This property was known in the smooth Riemannian manifold setting or with curvature restrictions on $$\\textrm{X}$$<\/jats:tex-math>\n X<\/mml:mtext>\n <\/mml:math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula>, while we prove it here in full generality. 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