de Sitter space

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English

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Etymology

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

Noun

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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.