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de Sitter geodesics in stereographic charts

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2018-10-23 v1

Abstract

It is shown that the stereographic coordinates on the (1+3)(1+3)-dimensional de Sitter spacetime induce, in the parametric equations of all the timelike geodesics, artificial singularities which do not have any physical motivation.

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@article{arxiv.1712.04507,
  title  = {de Sitter geodesics in stereographic charts},
  author = {Ion I. Cotaescu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.04507},
  year   = {2018}
}
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