2005/06/25 by H. -J. Schmidt
Physics and Astronomy · #gr-qc
published as Acta Historica Astronomiae 27 (2005) 108-124 · 19 pages, LaTeX, in German language, submitted for publication, English language title: Einstein's papers in relation to modern cosmology
arxiv created 2005/06/25 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
We comment on the paper [1] by Albert Einstein from 1918 to Willem De Sitter's solution [2] of the Einstein field equation from today's point of view. To this end, we start by describing the geometry of the De Sitter space-time and present its importance for the inflationary cosmological model.