Curvature tensor for a particular Hilbert manifold

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My question involves an infinite dimensional Hilbert manifold with a Riemannian metric.

My question is: What is the form of the curvature tensor for a infinite dimensional Hilbert manifold with a Riemannian metric?

Note- please try not suggesting books or long reads. I'd like an equation for the curvature tensor and I'll probably ask questions abort terms. Please and thank you.

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I've never more than looked lightly into infinite-dimensional manifolds, but much of the finite theory carries over, provided things converge.

The Lie bracket is definable by $[X, Y](f) = X(Y(f)) - Y(X(f))$ for smooth functions $f$.

The Levi-Civita connection $D_VW$ is definable by the Koszul formula: $$\begin{align}2\langle D_VW, X\rangle &= V\langle W, X\rangle + W\langle V, X\rangle -X\langle V, W\rangle\\ &- \langle V, [W, X]\rangle + \langle W, [X, V]\rangle + \langle X, [V, W]\rangle\end{align}$$

The curvature tensor is definable as $$R_{XY}Z = D_{[X,Y]}Z - [D_X, D_Y]Z$$

(I am using the conventions of Barrett O'Neil's Semi-Riemannian Geometry - some Authors have the opposite definition for $R$)

As far as I can see, all of those definitions work in infinite dimensions.