 Gaussian null coordinates (source code)

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= Gaussian null coordinates
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Gaussian null coordinates adapt one coordinate to the generators of a <null hypersurface>, one affine coordinate to transverse null geodesics, and the remaining coordinates to a spacelike cross-section. If the generator parameter is affine, the metric can locally be written
$$
ds^2=2\,dr\,d\lambda+r^2F\,d\lambda^2+2rh_i\,d\lambda\,dy^i+h_{ij}\,dy^i\,dy^j.
$$

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