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Cactus Code Thorn StaticConformal
Author(s)    : Tom Goodale
Maintainer(s): Cactus team
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1. Purpose

This thorn provides the variables defining a static conformal factor
which is used to transform the physical metric.  If this thorn is
active and the ADMBase::metric_type parameter is set to
`static conformal' then the ADMBase::g... variables are the
conformal values as opposed to the physical values.

The transformation is

$$ g_{ij}^{\mbox{physical}} = \psi^4 g_{ij}^{\mbox{conformal}} $$

The extrinsic curvature is not transformed.