A description of several coordinate systems for hyperbolic spaces

2001/12/19 by S. S. e Costa, Costa, S. S. e
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #35J05 (Secondary) #58J05 (Primary) #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #Mathematical Physics (math-ph) #gr-qc #math-ph #math.MP #msc:35J05 #msc:58J05

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math-ph/0112039

26 pages, standard LaTeX article (uses packages graphics and fancyheadings), 3 figures

arxiv created 2001/12/19 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

This article simply presents several coordinate systems for 2 and 3-dimensional hyperbolic spaces, describing the general solutions of Helmholtz equation in each one of these systems.

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