Definition:Minkowski Spacetime/Definition 1

Definition

Minkowski spacetime is the pseudo-Euclidean space $\R^{r, 1}$.

Also known as

Minkowski spacetime can also be seen rendered hyphenated, that is, as Minkowski space-time.

Other terms that can be found for the same concept:

• Minkowskian space-time
• Minkowski space
• Minkowski world
• Minkowski universe
• $\paren {r + 1}$-dimensional Minkowski space

Also see

• Equivalence of Definitions of Minkowski Spacetime

• Results about Minkowski spacetime can be found here.

Source of Name

This entry was named for Hermann Minkowski.

Sources

• 2018: John M. Lee: Introduction to Riemannian Manifolds (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $\S 2$: Riemannian Metrics. Pseudo-Riemannian Metrics