Isotropic-to-areal weak-field radius change
ID: isotropic-to-areal-weak-field-radius-change
The area of a symmetry sphere in the weak-field isotropic metric is . Equating it to defines the areal radius and gives the displayed change. To first order , and replacing by changes the perturbation only at second order. This explains why the isotropic angular correction disappears in the linearized Schwarzschild metric without discarding spatial curvature.
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