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De Sitter space
In mathematics and physics, n-dimensional de Sitter space, denoted dS_n, is the maximally symmetric, simply-connected, Lorentzian manifold with constant positive curvature. It may be regarded as the Lorentzian analog of an n-sphere (with its canonical Riemannian metric).
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