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Isotropic

The isotropic choice sets the lapse to

\begin{displaymath} \alpha = \frac{2}{\psi} - 1 \end{displaymath}

which provides the exact isotropic lapse for a single black hole in isotropic coordinates. This gauge choice can only be used with metric_type = "static conformal".