Contracted Codazzi equation with positive expansion

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For the positive-expansion convention for extrinsic curvature, write with normal acceleration . The Ricci commutator applied to gives the difference of its two second-derivative contractions. Projecting tangentially, the acceleration term in that commutator cancels exactly the acceleration term converting a spacetime divergence of into its fully projected spatial covariant derivative. Einstein's equations then identify the displayed equation as the momentum constraint.

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