Rindler coordinates

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Rindler coordinates are a coordinate system used to describe the hyperbolic acceleration of a uniformly accelerating reference frame in flat spacetime. The coordinates of a hyperbolically accelerated reference frame constitute a useful coordinate chart representing flat Minkowski spacetime.

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