Harmonic coordinates

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This article defines a property that is evaluated for a choice of local coordinates at a point on a Riemannian manifold

Definition

A system of local coordinates at a point in a Riemannian manifold is said to be harmonic coordinates if each of the coordinate functions is a harmonic function in that open neighbourhood.