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Title: Hyperbolic times in Minkowski space
Time functions with asymptotically hyperbolic geometry play an increasingly important role in many areas of relativity, from computing black hole perturbations to analyzing wave equations. Despite their significance, many of their properties remain underexplored. In this expository article, I discuss hyperbolic time functions by considering the hyperbola as the relativistic analog of a circle in two-dimensional Minkowski space and argue that suitably defined hyperboloidal coordinates are as natural in Lorentzian manifolds as spherical coordinates are in Riemannian manifolds.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2309084
PAR ID:
10585623
Author(s) / Creator(s):
Publisher / Repository:
AIP Publishing
Date Published:
Journal Name:
American Journal of Physics
Volume:
92
Issue:
12
ISSN:
0002-9505
Page Range / eLocation ID:
965 to 974
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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