Positive-expansion convention for extrinsic curvature

ID: positive-expansion-convention-for-extrinsic-curvature

With a future unit timelike normal in signature , this convention makes the extrinsic curvature trace equal to the normal congruence's expansion, . An expanding flat Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker metric has and . This is the opposite sign to the negative-expansion convention used in many 3+1 decomposition of spacetime formulas. Projection identities and momentum constraints must use the same convention throughout.

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