de Sitter space

English

Etymology

Named after Willem de Sitter (1872–1934), professor of astronomy.

Noun

de Sitter space (plural de Sitter spaces)

  1. A Lorentzian manifold in Minkowski space which is the analogue of the sphere in ordinary Euclidean space.
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