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Figure 18 where = 7”, 0, is the D’Alembert (wave) operator of the Minkowski spacetime, h = hi; = 65"7hij, and the angular brackets around tensor indices in h<ijs = hij — 6i;h/3, denote the symmetric trace-free (STF) part of the spatial components of the metric tensor [the STF tensors which are explained in Chapter 5 of this book. They are also thoroughly discussed by Thorne [146], Blanchet and Damour [11] and in a review article by Poisson et al. [127]. Equations (3.3.30)-(3.3.33) are valid in the class of coordinates defined by the gauge condition (3.3.22).
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