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I'm glad I could help! > could you please collect the definitions of (i) Hyperbolic space (ii) Minkowski space (iii) Lorentzian manifold (iv) Pseudo Riemannian
by codethief 6y ago
I'm glad I could help!
> could you please collect the definitions of (i) Hyperbolic space (ii) Minkowski space (iii) Lorentzian manifold (iv) Pseudo Riemannian manifold?
Sure:
A Riemannian manifold is a smooth manifold M together with a positive-definite metric g on M.
A hyperbolic manifold is a Riemannian manifold M of constant negative sectional curvature. It is often required in addition that M be a complete manifold.
A pseudo-Riemannian manifold is a smooth manifold M together with a non-degenerate metric g on M (of arbitrary signature).
A Lorentzian manifold of dimension n is a pseudo-Riemannian manifold (of dimension n) whose metric has signature (1, n-1) or, equivalently, (n-1, 1).
(n+1)-dimensional Minkowski space is the Lorentzian manifold (ℝ^(n+1), η), where η = - (dx⁰)² + (dx¹)² + … + (dx^n)² with respect to the standard coordinates (x⁰, x¹, …, x^n) on ℝ^(n+1).
- bollu 6y agoAnd what is the precise relationship between hyperbolic space and Minkowski space? am I right in understanding that one can _embed_ a model of hyperbolic space (the hyperboloid moidel, obeying the equation `-x0^2 + x1^2 + ... xn^2 = 0` as a subspace of the Minkowski space? But Minkowski space is far larger than hyperbolic space?
- codethief 6y agopa7x1 already answered that question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23549361 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23549361