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Index<br />

1+log slicing, 161<br />

<strong>3+1</strong> <strong>formalism</strong>, 11<br />

3-metric, 21<br />

ADM 4-momentum, 113<br />

ADM mass, 106<br />

ADM momentum, 112<br />

algebraic slicings, 161<br />

approximate maximal slicing, 158<br />

approximate minimal distortion, 168<br />

asymptotically flat, 104<br />

asymptotically maximal gauge, 114<br />

background metric, 85<br />

baryon number 4-current, 78<br />

baryon number current measured by the Eulerian<br />

observer, 79<br />

baryon number density measured by the Eulerian<br />

observer, 78<br />

Bianchi identity, 178<br />

Bowen-York extrinsic curvature, 137<br />

BSSN scheme, 181<br />

Cauchy surface, 39<br />

CMC, 130<br />

Codazzi relation, 36<br />

Codazzi-Mainardi relation, 36<br />

collapse <strong>of</strong> the lapse, 158<br />

conformal equivalence class, 84<br />

conformal flatness approximation, 100<br />

conformal isometry, 194<br />

conformal Killing operator, 101, 127, 193<br />

conformal Killing vector, 194<br />

conformal Killing vectors, 127<br />

conformal lapse, 140<br />

conformal metric, 83, 86<br />

conformal thin s<strong>and</strong>wich, 140<br />

conformal time slicing, 161<br />

conformal transformation, 83<br />

conformal transverse traceless, 129<br />

conformal vector Laplacian, 127, 195<br />

conformally flat, 84<br />

constant mean curvature, 130<br />

constrained scheme, 175<br />

constraint-violating modes, 181<br />

constraints, 64<br />

contracted Codazzi relation, 36<br />

contracted Gauss relation, 35<br />

cotangent space, 16<br />

Cotton tensor, 84<br />

Cotton-York tensor, 84<br />

CTS, 140<br />

CTT, 129<br />

De Donder, 159<br />

Dirac gauge, 174<br />

distortion tensor, 163<br />

dominant energy condition, 111<br />

dynamical equation violation, 177<br />

Einstein tensor, 176<br />

Einstein-Christ<strong>of</strong>fel system, 181<br />

Einstein-Rosen bridge, 135<br />

elliptic, 196<br />

embedding, 19<br />

Eulerian coordinates, 163<br />

Eulerian gauge, 163<br />

Eulerian observer, 42<br />

extended conformal thin s<strong>and</strong>wich, 141<br />

extrinsic curvature tensor, 24<br />

fiducial observers, 43<br />

first fundamental form <strong>of</strong> Σ, 21<br />

fluid coordinate velocity, 77

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