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Analogies between Kruskal space and de Sitter space

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The relation between Kruskal and Schwarzschild coordinates is analogous to that between hyperboloid and de Sitter coordinates; the Kruskal diagram is analogous to the hyperboloid diagram; and the crossing over of horizons in Kruskal space is analogous to the well-known crossing over of the particle horizon and the event horizon in cosmology.

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Rindler, W. Analogies between Kruskal space and de Sitter space. Found Phys 15, 545–551 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01882481

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